My parents always sit in the same chairs at home, leaving two empty ones at the table where my brother and I used to sit. So, there’s an empty chair waiting for me at the table in my parent’s house, but there is also a chair in my apartment in New York that is usually full–I do everything there, I eat there, I work on my laptop there– I am even typing this explanation from that chair right now. You can see it in the picture to the left of this text. There Chair is a project which connects me to my parents through these two chairs. Whenever I am sitting in my spot in my apartment in New York, a light glows in my chair back home– conveying my presence to my parents as they go about their day. For me, the most interesting thing about There Chair is that it allows my parents to feel connected to me in a way that is more subtle than, for example, a phone call or instant messaging. In seeing the light at different times of the day, my parents will get a sense of where I am and what I am doing that is reminiscent of the simplicity of physical presence which people take for granted when they live together.