Five Chairs

I have found my basement filling up with furniture salvaged from the houses of my father and my uncle. The basement has two rooms. the one with the chairs is the light side as it has natural light coming in from stairs leading up to the garden. The room where I draw is the dark side with no natural light and only one bulb out of four currently working. Its like a cave. I pass by the light side on the way to draw and see the chairs in different light. They seem to be in conversation with each other (in the photo taken after the drawing was made, another chair has joined the group).

I used the masking tape, carbon, sprayfix method. Then I made another version using scraps of leftover tape and then a pencil to define the forms.

The idea was to try to capture the mood of the chairs in the room rather than my mood created by the chairs in the room. That is, to draw the chairs in room as they are, in the absence of a viewer.

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