Present Moment by Shelby Head

Present Moment, 2026

Construct

37 x 41 x 46 in

The chair bears witness to time measured not by productivity, but by presence. Resting on a platform, it marks the space where attention, repetition, and stillness transform perception.

For three years, I sat in a chair every day in meditation. What began as a personal practice slowly became an artwork. The chair bears witness to time measured not by productivity, but by presence. Resting on a platform, it marks the space where attention, repetition, and stillness transformed perception. Part of the What Is This? series, the work asks whether sustained contemplation can become a material of art and whether an ordinary object can hold the invisible archive of a lived practice.