sunset on amstelveen

Study: Jamaica St bench

mysterious lights in the bermondsy triangle!

Study: Cellist performance London bridge venue

The musician emanates one of the most enduring images of solitude. The level of concentration and focus between the musician to the instrument removes the musician from the immediate environment in many ways, it is our appreciation of this detachment and the consequences of the use of this object that allows us to be drawn into the musicians world, to share their vision, to experience what is being communicated through interaction between human and object. The chair is essential it must be one of the few instruments that require a chair. There is a frequent connection between the spine or the back and "other" places. It can be associatted with the past, so therefore with memory and with security or protection (by being a weakspot or centre of instability.
I would like to reproduce these images with black ink on red/orange glass/plastic backlit with yellow/orange...use diffuse technique...

Study: Reflection of a chair

Study: Sunrise reflecting off park benches

on new years day

Study: 100 Stairs of solitude

100 stairs of solitude....skate spot east London
its a lonely place between here and the bottom of these steps, an oncoming clatter of stairs persistently looming into view

Study: Reflection of sunset off benches

Study: Andrei Tarkovsky - Solaris (1972)

Solaris (1972) trailer and
end sequence





















Frozen pond, in deepest darkest New Cross

Study: Cartop seat

Study: Chair hidden in ivy

Study: Half underwater photos

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...

Prototype: Heron stool

A broken shop mirror, a multilayered cardboard block, some picture frame clips wire and aluminium tubes. There are two places I'd like to locate this, on a roof like the solitary smoking chairs you see from buses and bridges or in a stream/river. See also rooftop studies, heron statue, underwater chair and underwater lanscapes and these



























































more heron studies here

Sketch: Model wraparound chairs

looking a bit like dog on its way from the vets this chair wraps the user up in a slighty coned plastic back semi visible through frosted material.

Study: Melting snow