open seating: in memoriam (the chairs that were on 111th)

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

in memoriam (the chairs that were on 111th)

me: so last friday i saw a heap of chairs on the side of the road
like an empty dinner party
and was getting out my camera
and some homeless guy started chasing me
so i never got the shot.
Becca: i think that story could make a good post
me: okay

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In 2006 I watched a discarded arm chair make its way up and down Lenox Ave between 136th and 137th over the course of a couple weeks before it disappeared, reappeared and then vanished again completely. Every day of that two-week journey, it became somewhat of an anticipated guessing game to see where the chair would be on the block. Since then, I've been very conscious of chairs on the street and I've often wondered where they've been, whom they've supported and where they'll end up. Chairs are particularly interesting to me because they are for resting and visiting. They are for positioning yourself to be productive or social or listening or slothful or pensive. They are for sitting on or standing on or leaning against or placing on. And then we throw them away and move on. I think there is symbolism in that.

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Tuesday, April 24, 2007

in memoriam (the chairs that were on 111th)

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