Inspired by Arrival, Tomie Arai's 1996 mixed-media installation at the Lower East Side Printshop in New York City, Tomie's Chair is an allegory of outward and inward movement. The chair is a symbol of rest but also of decision -- to rise and move beyond signposts, to change and break bonds, to be independent and create new bonds within one's own static, open spaces, to go further than the signposts at the end of a half-open road.