For ten minutes, you sit at exactly their scale

Plum ground. One flat silhouette, side on: an adult on a child's classroom chair, knees raised well above the hips, spine curved forward to fit. Feet flat on the floor and visibly too big for the space they're in. In front, a table at the same small scale, one exercise book open on it. No colour inside the shape, no text anywhere.

Every other design in this set is a parent reading an object after the fact. This one is the single evening a parent is actually in the room — sized down to fit it.

Why is scale the entire content of this image?

Because scale is the one thing that's true here and isn't true anywhere else all year — for ten minutes, the furniture that fits your child every day doesn't fit you at all.

The rest of a school year is read from a distance: a scuffed shoe, a folded painting, a name crossed out in a collar. This particular evening is different — you're not interpreting an object, you're sitting in the room it came from, at a scale built for somebody roughly a third of your size. The knees-above-hips shape says that in one line, without needing anything else in the frame.

Why does the exercise book on the table matter?

Because it's the actual evidence being handed over, and the only piece of the whole picture that isn't about the furniture.

Everything else — the chair, the small table, the too-big feet — sets up how strange the scale is. The book is the reason you're there: the record filled in most nights all year, now read out loud to you by somebody who spends more hours a day with your child than you currently do.

Why is the figure a plain silhouette with no face?

Because it isn't one particular parent — it's the shape of the position, and most parents who sit down in that chair recognise it immediately.

A face would make this one evening, one family, one specific conversation. Left as a solid outline, it reads as the position itself: knees up, spine folded, listening. That's general enough to be true of the reader's own chair, on their own evening, without the print claiming to know what was actually said in it.

Does a silhouette like this need anyone's permission to print?

No — there's nothing identifiable in it. No face, no name, no visible page of the exercise book, no real building.

It sidesteps every version of the consent question that comes up elsewhere in this set: nobody's child is drawn, nobody's handwriting is shown, and the adult in the chair could be anybody, folded onto furniture built for somebody smaller.

Does this work for something other than a classroom visit?

Yes — the shape belongs to any evening where an adult ends up seated at a child's scale to be told something about them: a nursery pickup, a birthday party on tiny stools, any room built around what a child is doing rather than what an adult is.

What makes the print work is the mismatch between the furniture and the body sitting in it, not the specific occasion. Change the setting and the same silhouette still reads correctly.

Isn't a plain silhouette a strange thing to want, with no colour and no detail?

That depends on what the image is for, and here detail isn't it — the whole point is a shape you register in half a second, the way you'd recognise the position from across a hall before you could make out a single face in it.

Compare it with the one posed portrait most families actually own: that image is built from detail — hair, collar, backdrop. This one is built from none of it, on purpose, because it's recording a posture, not a likeness.

Does it print well?

Yes — a single flat shape with hard edges is one of the simplest prints there is.

One ink on plum, cut-vinyl clean with no gradients or interior lines, holds up at any size from a left-chest mark to a full chest print. The whole design depends on the silhouette's outline being exact — the knee height, the curve of the spine — rather than on any surface detail inside it.

How do I get one made?

Describe the evening at JustOG — the chair, the table, what was open on it. Pick a direction, drag the crop frame, see it composited on the real garment, and it's made to order and shipped.

Designs other people have published are in the shop.

Ten minutes, and then you stand up at your own height again and walk back out to the car park.