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These are real office chairs “flattened” on
the wall. They look like big squashed insects, or like the way children
draw tables and chairs with the legs sticking outward, in a confounding
of elevation and plan, so that the metal furniture conforms to and also
disregards the laws of perspective. As a de-formalist, I have distorted
these sculptural objects to follow the laws of both drawing and of photography
(representation of volume on flat surface). The title is a merging of
Our Office and Office Hours.
I am Professor and Asst. Chair of Graduate Studies at Otis College.
I spend my time in the classroom, in students' studios or in the graduate
office,
shared with Roy Dowell. My studio is also a small office that I share with
artist Adele Mills. Both my school office and my studio office have the
same low ceiling, horrid carpet and frightful fluorescent lights. Notice
the picture: The office is so small that it is impossible to photograph
the work without also including parts of the space. But then, why always
try to isolate the "work" from the space in which it is produced? Annetta Kapon
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