Have definitely decided to pursue my idea of using a chair as a visual vehicle to move through my book with. I got some good feedback about it in my group tutorial, and so I've stopped worrying about it being too obscure, and feel that I am fully able to justify my decision:
- A chair, especially one as I've drawn it, is simultaneously a completely utilitarian object, and a completely decorative one. If the purpose of a 'chair' is as something to sit on, then a rock would do, wouldn't it? Or an upturned box? And so why are some chairs designed to become beautiful objects? The chair I have designed for use here is by no means ultra-decorative, but it's still more decorative that it really need be.
- I think a chair is also quite an interesting visual device as it's wrapped up with connotations of leisure, and status. As my project is a discussion about the accessibility (or inaccessibility) of a field that is surrounded my rarified discourse, theory and pretensions, using what is historically a symbol of status/intellect (if you had time to be sitting around in the contemplation of art you probably weren't part of the working masses) is a fun reclamation - make a big idea accessible, and use an image symbolic of inaccessibility to do so.
- The chair is a participatory piece of furniture, and doesn't really fulfil it's function until somebody sits on it. I can try to think of fun ways to show this in my book.
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