In September, 2005, I participated in the fall show of the Galiano Arts Guild in which I am a member. The theme of this year's show was "Men and Flowers" . I had four large digital photographs and an installation of painted chairs "Homage to Franz West". These chairs- recycled from the forties and repainted to the theme, are to be stacked or sat upon or used to look at the other work in this exhibition. Their inspiration as art came from my experience this summer with the work of artist Franz West at the Vancouver Art Gallery. His artist statement sums up the philosophy.

"Early on I realized that the purely visual experience of an artwork was somehow insufficient. I wanted to go beyond the purely optical and include tactical qualities as well. My works aren't things one just looks at, but things that the viewer is invited to handle. There have been many theories of art that try to break down the border between art and the world, but I don't find such attempts to be particularly meaningful. Art remains art. I really see my work as quite compatible with the l'art pour 'lart philosophy. One may think that I try to bring the art object out into the world since my works sometimes appear to have a practical function, but really it's the other way around: things in the world can, under certain special circumstances, enter the realm of art. And, in fact, once they have entered this realm they are art." Franz West