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Study: Shadow of a chair in a window display

Singular chair in a window display close to London bridge

Study: Chair in alley

Amazing colours in the surrounding
environment

Study: Panoptigon seats

earlier studies
and original sketch model


























I love the composition of the photo above, the way the back drop walls dont meet up on the same lines of perspective which sends your eye out when you are focusing on the broken seat. And the matching blue light on the wall making the set piece take on more of a furniture catalogue feel.

When prophecy fails

Prophecies and predictions require blindspots. Absolutism can exist but maybe with varying doses of cognitive dissonance. Hence we have guilt laden monetheistic religions and theoretical sciences with incomplete and inconsistant "standard models" or core beliefs.

In the case of cults (When Prophecy Fails) the desperation of those left to fend for themselves after "greatness" is not delivered.

Divine providence does not deliver anything to the weak and downtrodden except the meagre comfort of "things being better after you've died". Blinkered approaches to the bigger picture, made up answers which beg the question why hasn't evolution totally dispensed of religion already? what evolutionary purpose does faith/belief serve? what do christian scientists say? how is cognitive dissonance smoothed out, how do we profess that which we don't know to be true...except through conviction...the pillar of faith...

Study: Smoking seat

trace of a door behind
earlier studies and here and here

Study: Coutyard corner chair

Study: Veranda Suntrap

This image is crammed full of information about its owner, how the chair might be used and when the other two are used.

Study: the fine line between life and death

dangermen stuntpeople

Prototype: Fat leg chairs

One of the fat legged chairs broke around the backrest so this will lead to a new stage of development where at each stage the overweighted mend will make the weak parts give elsewhere.

Study: Heron

Studies to go with the heron stool

Study: Detail/Pattern and Form

The original study was of this broken chair on the bags, the form like a massive hemorrhaging chair that would be possible to recreate as a massive bean bag for alot of people with one "normal" seat included. The detail of a delicate dusting of small flowers adds to the aged effect in the close up macro shots. The

Study: Man Alone At Heron Statue

Another study for the heron stool
Also other studies

Study: Man Alone on Bench

Study: Man sat against a tree surrounded by empty chairs

Study: Park and alley chairs

Study: Chair stuck in gap

Study: Single seats bench style

Single seats similar to Barcelona
Also singular

Study: Garage fold up chair

Study: Cantelever single seats

I found these in Elephant and Castle, Cantelever seats that are similar to these earlier sketch models.

Sketch Model: Kissing chair

Simplify the Warped Up chair, use visual clutter on legs only, see also Wrap Around and Wrapped Up

Study: Light falling on anti-human ledge, the desolate mini scapes petruding the city banks and offices with the human equivelent of pigeon spikes

Study: Half underwater photos

Lost bouys

Sunbathing

Study: Park Bench - panoptigon

From the sketch models on the idea of the panoptigon
And later studies

On this bench even on cold winter days beggars travellers and drunks congregate here in paranoid huddles. Sometimes they cluster in patches of stereotypes viewing the world with suspicious glares and fidgety dances. On better days it is like the international space station of young mothers with satellite prams orbiting close proximity. On the dull days suits face one way wardens another and apart from the flapping of a pigeon the farty slapping of the pathetic fountain is the only accompaniment to the London hum. On the hottest days everybody forgets who they are and the delerium breaks bounderies like snowball fights with strangers. But most of the time it is not used at all, snow falls and melts and leaves get stuck inbetween the bars and nobody notices. It is funny then that from here so much is noticed, absorbed and soaked in. It is like the panoptigon of the city. You sit and blend into the furniture of the city. People walking past do not care who you are, you are part of the scenery of their day they cannot see you for their security blinkers. You become anonymous and un-noticed but from this bench you can see the whole spectrum of life all of the details of the lives of others here in south east london and from this bench you go can include or seclude yourself.

see also first posting

Study: Metal wire, wood, snow and netting

interesting forms in relation to the warped kissing seat

Study: Snow chair

Snow on a patio chair gave me an idea for (structurally strengthened and) upholstered patio furniture. Lavishly decorated and luxuriously comfortable cheapness, the chair that thinks it is above its station, inflated self...

Study: Shop seats

Solidarity and Solitude

Acts of solidarity that counter solitude. Typically a word used by the left wing that has been used to support those who have been perceived to be isolated.

British custom of rooting for the underdog.

At the same time the news is about increasing division between people (economically - poverty gap, / socially -ethnic divisions, power structures, class divides / idealogically - ) our ability to express solidarity and for the message to be received has also increased. (expand, dates numbers figures - mobile phone ownership, % of populations with internet access.)

Richard Dawkins contradictory science / religion beleifs, accepting both without examining the fact that they in many ways cannot co-exist. The church of England in typical reaction to Darwins popularity embraced the man upon his death and buried his body in Westminster abbey.

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