Paul Trinidad
FALVA - University of Western Australia

Mum Tah-Bun condition

still negotiating

composite gallery view - #1

Julie's Chairs

Chair Conversation

According to Plato, a carpenter, when manufacturing a chair, will try to apply his knowledge of the idea, the essence, of chair (his conceptual highness Chairness), however limited his insight therein, so as to produce a thing which actually "participates" in that Idea.
The individual chairs that we see around us, are thus at one remove from the idea Chair; they are not real in the sense of eternally there. In contrast, individual chairs come and go and only their essence, the Idea chair, remains eternally the same. Only the idea is real.

A painter, it is argued, will pick merely one of those individual chairs and depict that: the result is at a double remove from the idea. [Schopenhauer thought that the artist, even more perhaps than the carpenter takes the idea into account---but that is a different story.]

Cheers, Michael (MKT)

Chair Conversation Continued

11 September 2006

For Julie:

The Julie’s Chair series of works reflects one person’s battle with breast cancer. In these works I have responded to intimate knowledge of my friends struggle by interpreting personal information, and I have used the chair – Julie’s chair as a metaphor for many of her deepest thoughts, fears and hopes. This also, in light of the perspective of what is real, what is more real, is the pain from a broken limb different from the pain of a broken heart, the confusion of physical impairments, different from the confusion in friendships, work environments, relationships? Is mental pain comparable to physical pain?

Julie has her operation today and my thoughts are with her.

Eye Spy Games - acrylic, pages from the novel Phantom of the Opera on board

900 x 760 mm

.................................Mens Business (Priveledged Discourse) series 400 x 300 mm

............................Mens Business (Priveledged Discourse) series 400 x 300 mm