a brief history of the chairs in my studio

Saturday, February 21st, 2009

i can’t remember where or when i got this chair, but it has been the one i sit in when i cut up found stickers and rearrange the letters into ransom note style poetry.

this one i found in the trash with a loose seat, a few screws later and it was as good as new.

I found this chair in a dumpster somewhere, all that was wrong with it was a loose screw, so i fixed it and now i sit in it sometimes.

This is a great stool that was being thrown away, it has become my soldering chair. I sit in it when i am soldering.

i found the remnants of this chair on the side of the road, along with the scrap wood that now makes up its “seat”. I use it exclusively as a stand for that water heating contraption that goes along with that thermaplastic crap i have toted back and forth across the country never quite making anything with, but will someday…

this is my go to stool. I found the base in a dumpster and attached some 1×4 scraps to the top for a seat. I started using it as my welding stool but had to actually shave down the rough edges a bit so it was easier to sit on. These days if I am not sitting on it while I weld, i use it as a convenient stand for welding related stuff.

this has become a common motif for me, taking a crappy chair and affixing a piece of wood to it and using it as a makeshift drawing stand. the seat of the chair is the oerfect base for all dry and wet media drawing material.

I often times sit on this crate when working on things down low. it’s funny in the routine of the studio i spend lot of time moving around from chair to chair, yet i never really feel like i am ever perfectly still.

these are a couple of subway benches i found. The bottom one serves as a cozy nap spot thanks to the moving blankets, and normally the upper level is used for seating and not as a sculpture stand.

these are actually the boxes that the spikes i got and used for making rust prints for the last couple of years came in originally. I now use them both as low stools and as props for unstable things.

this chair is a recent acquisition i got from the museum i work at. it has already been turned into some sort of hybrid drawings board/storage shelf. although this time an extra large drawing board leans against the other side, braced in place by a bucket of random rusty hardware i use for rust prints.

this is a recent creation featuring the frame from an old discarded breur chair and the circular pieces of wood from a display i found behind urban outfitters.

i am starting to over document the studio because i don’t know what the future holds for my studio. The business in the front of the building went out of business and It is only me left in the back. The building owners are cool with letting me go month to month until a new tenant moves in. They want to keep me in the warehouse in the back and hopefully the new tenants in the storefront will be cool with a sculpture shop in the back. I am playing it by ear, but I am optimistic that if I do have to downsize or move the studio I will be able to make do where ever i end up. It is actually better than I thought, because initially I thought I would have to leave the end of January when the bakery shut down, but now I am clear until at least april or May-ish.

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a brief history of the chairs in my studio