Backman

The back of a fairly common school chair is attached with two conspicuous screws (eyes!). Then the mouth can also fall open: pacman ehh Backman! This drawing is indebted to an earlier 2018 entitled (S) Eat.

 

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Look

Cees Braakman‘s SB02 is an unexpectedly rich source of ideas. It’s amazing how a casual discovery can yield such a series of images. For years I saw this SB02 with some regularity until at some point I noticed the resemblance of the placement of the screws to fix the backrest with eyes and mouth or nose. Drawn for the first time in the portrait series. Kijk! is also one of the earlier ones in this area. Some other designs also turned out to have these ‘facial features’: Backman, Couple or Portrait 33. Or what about ‘Encounter II‘.

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Restrained

Anyone who has ever played pacman will probably understand that from time to time the teeth have to be inserted somewhere. Especially if you have already encountered the Backman drawing in my digital display. The first and only thing that is in the immediate vicinity is the list …

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(S)Eat

The two screws in the back of this chair are like eyes and extending this way of seeing the space between the back and the seat is a mouth. To accentuate this I added the teeth. See also the drawings Backman and Verbeten.

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