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Condition report
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The speakers are found within the chamber pots and can be wired to play audio, which is the sound of women washing chamber pots in the Shanghai streets in the mornings of the artist's childhood as he walked to school. Wear, cracks, and losses are scattered to the found chair, some presumably in keeping with the found nature of the medium. The central panel of the chair is slightly loose.