Animation: Floating Chair

Study

Study: Thameside Stalactites

Study: Fenced off trunk seats

Study: The London squares

Here's an introduction to Peter Ackroyds London
"London is filled with many broken images"

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...

experiencing the city alone we are neither on our own or part of the swarming herds cutting channels through the humdrum flow. In the middle of one world city the illustration of the great divide in life seems to niggle at me. Not rich and poor, immigrant and native, male and female, young and old, but one that sums up all of these divides. The one and the many. How you perceive yourself in this equation (feedback?) of the one and the many may define your experience. To be part of the many is important to us but in typical human contradiction we seemingly desire to be different, to establish our own independence.

Study: The Brutalist of Solitudes

Study: Square chair in a scaffold grid

Another balcony space with a chair
This shares a visual language with this recent post and a more "disintergrating"older post

Study: Separation of the human and all its senses...

the chair here in a squalid corner of a squalid park, used by drunks and tramps, a single seat futon matress crumpled up dumped in a corner next to the derelict toilets. The visual cues of the human form curled up in a foetal position renders this image as slightly disturbing and an unsettling reflection of the scenes played out upon it. The lost and broken paraphernalia smashed glass, a stick, an empty beer bottle and can, a remote control, electrical componants, bin bags























If you take all the sense and all the senses from the human form there is only a carcas remaining recognisible by the most basic of forms

Study: Deteriorating bench

Study: Broken stone bench

From the Tate

Artschwager’s sculptures are neither real, functional objects nor straightforward representations. They aim to call our attention to their nature as illusions. Artschwager has described them as ‘useful furniture with an overlay of representation’. This refers to his technique of applying the conventions used to depict form and space in illusionistic painting to three-dimensional objects. In this sculpture, the wood-grain and coloured plastic laminate are used to outline the forms of the table and chair and the empty areas around their legs or seat.

(From the display caption September 2004)

Study: observational posts

observational posts: binocculars in the flat on london bridge.