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This series of chairs was informed by a drawing undertaken when I was a child. I drew a chair with two simple legs supporting the seat and back of the chair, and when I showed it to my father (an architect) he gave his critique: “where are the other two legs?”. He was teaching me to observe, to understand foreshortening and perspective, ways of seeing that were correct and rational.
In these chair/monument pieces, I have removed the characters through a process of in-painting and out-painting, and asked AI to replace the subject with the object left behind. A kind of sculpting and creation through the process of AI. It feels like taking away and making, all at once. New monuments that question what is left in our absence.
The primary objective for this series then, is to reflect upon the marks we make, to question long-held rules and systems of making, and to find reason and purpose in making with new tools, making with AI. I was seated too as I created these works, my chair, a personal architecture, an intimate form, holding space for me to create these new forms, left behind.
