Basket Chair

Visual Description

A black-and-white striped beach chair stands alone on the right on pale, wet sand. Behind it lies calm water, above it a heavy, grainy sky of drifting clouds. In the wet ground of the foreground, the chair is mirrored as a soft, striped figure.

Artistic Interpretation

The beach chair is the furniture of waiting: built for company, here entirely on its own. The reflection doubles the emptiness and makes it appear both anchored and floating. The picture tells of the time after the season, when the beach belongs to the light.

Art-Historical Context

The reduction to object, horizon and reflection stands in the line of Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Seascapes and Michael Kenna’s long-exposure coastal pictures. The grain gives the photograph an analog feel.

Exclusivity

One of the most graphic works in the series: the chair’s stripes repeat in the reflection and become a sign. The photograph bears the artist’s signature.

Collector Value

A classic motif in modern reduction for maritime and urban spaces alike: hotels, lofts, dining rooms and offices. It suits collectors looking for photography as a calm constant in their collection.

More About the Artist

Olli Boehm combines digital photography with mixed-media interventions to create layered pictorial spaces in which reality, memory and atmosphere interlock. His works condense urban and human situations into visual metaphors—between blur, texture and precise composition.

With pure photography, as in the series “A day at the sea” and in his street pictures, he shows the clear, reduced side of this approach.

Condition Report

A detailed condition report with information on printing process, paper, edition and signature is available on request before purchase.