- This chair, I found it at a rummage sale
but I was looking for something like this.
A piece of furniture
that might have belonged to someone's grandparents.
Something that you might find in an old home
but has this idea of decoration or beauty
that the owner might have had.
I doubled it with the patterns
and the scene that's happening on this painting
but the painting is actually in the dimension of a television.
So it's meant to evoke a television screen.
And we see this feed of what might be
a YouTube video or something on it.
So it's meant to really evoke television and media,
screen media.
But then we see the pattern reflected in the canvas itself.
And then of course the scene is this country music video.
It's actually Dolly Parton singing "Jolene"
which is about this jilted lover, right.
And we see this glitchy digitized noise going across
so it's meant to move back and forth.
And then the beer cans
add this narrative of it being late at night
or this person sitting up and watching TV until far too late.
And I think the title is in fact "Watching Jolene at one am."
So at times guests might sit down and look at this.
And this chair isn't terribly precious
but it becomes much more precious of course
because it belongs to the painting
but I think it probably adds to the viewers' experience
to actually have this interaction
and imagine themselves in this place.
So it's probably
one of the more experimentally pieces I ve done
but I m really excited about it
and I can see it done in different ways.