Portfolio
Master of Fine Arts Work
This series
explores the dialogue and relationship between individuals and their environments.
I often use the chair as motif because I enjoy the duality of its symbol.
The empty chair is figurative in that it mimics the human form: arms,
legs, back, seat. But it is also a potential container: an environment.
We influence our surroundings simply by existing. Chairs hold our impressions,
our scents, and our germs. I like to also think of them collecting and
holding thoughts, ideas, and conversations. Like a chair, I allow myself
to be moved, polished and worn by others. Our surroundings influence us
as well. We become different people in different places, roles, or hats.
One acts and thinks differently sitting in a church pew, a throne, and
a toilet seat.
© 2011 Kristen Applebee