CHAIR COLUMNS , plastic chairs, stacked. height variable but always tall, 2019
Anyone who has visited Bangkok has seen them, towers of stools stacked upon one another during a soup stand’s off hours. Their colors are bright and their numbers aplenty, allowing for notability surrounding both the aesthetic quality of their forms as sculptures as well as the absurdity of their heights.
I visited many soup stands in my neighborhood and discussed with vendors [while sitting upon the very objects we were discussing] the significance of the colors of the stools they chose and the sense of character these forms brought to their shops. Agreements were made and exchanges occurred, most often resulting in a swapping out of new stools for their old and a carrying home of these objects that now embodied those very conversations shared.
Vendors in my neighborhood have become so interested in the project that they at times ring me up when they come across a chair of a particularly unique or hard to find coloring, offering to deliver it to my studio and lend their hand in seeing that it find its place in the ever-growing stack.
