Three Sitters: Norman, Brian, Frances

Where we place our chairs at home defines us as our lives grow around them with the things that receive our attention and form our habitats. As the focal point for attention and observation in these portraits, each chair is a motif for setting one’s place in the world and each habitat is explored as a construction, dictated by presence and absence. The three sitters are siblings of a family separated and displaced during the Second World War. The portraits unite them in their own surroundings—homes constructed in later life.