Exhibition 2025
Books Hands Chairs
Creative Performing Arts Grant, Displayed in Trumbull Art Gallery
This exhibition comes from my belief that books, hands, and chairs are, in essence, all you need in life.
These watercolor postcards were drawn on a trip (pilgrimage) to Vitra Campus in Weil-am-Rhein, Germany. Vitra Campus is not only an architectural masterpiece of some of the biggest names in architecture having built buildings there, but also home to the manufacturing, repairing, storage, and selling of the most iconic chairs of the 20th and 21st centuries.
I did these watercolor postcards with the company of my friend William in the Vitra Deli on a plywood chair by Jean Prouvé, who I share a birthday (8th April) with.
Along the way to a bustling marketplace in Buenos Aires, I stumbled upon this furniture store on the side of the cobbled street. The red upholstery of Eero Saarinen’s Tulip Chair immediately caught my eye, and I entered, intrigued to see more. The way that these cantilevered icons were themselves cantilevered off the walls was unique and made me question the typical showroom or warehouse display of chairs we see today.
Books Illustrated:
The Death and The Compass, Jorge Luis Borges
Piranesi, Susanna Clarke
City of the Unborn, Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
Super Cannes, J.G. Ballard
