Brick Chair 2 by Michael Wainwright in walnut

Last piece of furniture by Michael [if you can call it furniture], a generic chair form is used as a canvas to a tough but brutal realisation about class and housing. The sheer mundanity of the brick pattern soon starts to resonate as the mind makes colour connections rather like the mental process triggered by Damien Hirst dot paintings though, where as Hirsts paintings are decoration to fill a wall, this three dimensional object flicks you back and forth twixt interior and exterior. The mind struggles to place it, as childrens toy as dolls house? Furniture? something to sit on? Perhaps the strongest emotions triggered are ones of false protection and vulnerability. Anyone who has found themselves out, lost in a strange town, walking past windows lit up showing subburban security as the cold bites for the homeless and excluded, the whole sensation is inverted and projected back. Outdoors and indoors blur, vulnerability and security thrown back at you for your own introspection.