Empty Chair Series

(left to right) Manufactory of Echoes (baby chair injection mood) 29 x 21 cm, acrylic on paper. Manufactory of Echoes II, 21 x 29 cm, acrylic on paper. Belonging, 29 x 21 cm, acrylic on paper. Safety Chair, 29 x 21 cm, acrylic on paper. As the chair was once a domestic luxury, the metaphorical ‘empty chair’ is seldom found in folklore, making empty chair imagery peculiar to the depiction of the human condition in a post-industrial society. The chairs represent people held back by various belief systems that sustain a sense of alienation in society.