Frank Espiritu

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My work starts from an awareness of personal cultural transformations, with an eye to understanding how the social and political choices one makes dictates the shape one's life takes. Among all the experiences that affect us, those of childhood hold a particular fascination for me. I am interested in exploring the relationship between childhood circumstances and adult affinities. Images often come to me from drams of reminiscences. My re-presentaions purposely straddle the line between reflecting a conscious, natural reality and a powerfully non-rational magical world.

(Excerpted from Kayumanggi Presence '96; Works by Contemporary Artists of Fillipino Ancestry)

The materials for the chair - which was actually made originally for a chair exhibition at the Andrew -Shire Gallery on Wilshire Boulevard - were all gathered locally to make this chair. The bamboo came from Lomita, the black walnut came from Compton and the maple came from Pasadena.