open seating

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Cincinnati Style

This one comes out of C-town from Misty Brough.

Sunday, September 23, 2007

thrones: his and hers

found this lovely set on 15th street, between 6th and 7th avenue.

Saturday, September 8, 2007

184th between Bennett and Broadway

I like to think that this chair partied hard last night

Friday, September 7, 2007

indonesia ave & village way (they don't have street names--that i can spell)

this plaster-covered brick bench sits on a small road going through the rice fields of a village in inodnesia.

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

somewhere in Washington

in a parking lot behind the diner where we got breakfast.

111th St (Lenox and Adam Clayton)

i think this looks like a mushroom chair- like it just grew in the planter.

History

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.