There's just aspects of the classroom that are so iconic and attached to your childhood and memories. And whether we romanticize them or we alter them in our brain, they still become that marker or trigger for whatever we are trying to recall.
Gary Simmons with Tyler Green, host of The Modern Art Notes podcast, August 24, 2023

Gary Simmons, Erasure Chair, 1992. Felt and wood, 34 x 22.5 x 18 inches. Collection of the Nasher Museum. Gift of Blake Byrne, T’57, in honor of Raymond D. Nasher. © Gary Simmons. Photo: Peter Paul Geoffrion.