The Importance Of Chairs
Do you ever think about chairs? I mean, really think about them?
I have.
I drew the above last week. Here is another one from a few years ago, in The New Yorker.
And then this one from even longer ago.
We probably spend a third of our lives in chairs—has someone done the study? I find them so interesting and, at times, funny. And they are of course quite useful.
Do you have a favorite chair?
I just bought a new one the other day, so I can sit in front of my wood stove when it’s really cold in the studio. It’s rather nice, I just spent most of my Sunday in it.
I hope you had a good Sunday. I am going to get out of my chair now and go for a walk! Here’s to chairs!
Lovely idiosyncratic insights re chairs. Your mind is a sweet delight to witness!!!! Thanks!!
I remember one chair that I HAD to remove from the apt, I shared with a love I had hoped to marry. After her sudden explanation she was in love with another "friend," our shared chair had to disappear right away. As the windows were too small and i could not toss it out and watch it sail (my real hope), I somehow pushed it down the three story winding staircase, ripping out walls, bannisters and even getting stuck between the chair and the wall for a while. Whew.
As you note, chairs in front of woodstoves are lovely luxuries. Rockers and wood stoves, unlike complex human spirits, are easy natural partners and often last easily for generations. Let me know if you want to build a wooden rocker out of lumber--or better--forest wood. There are about 30,000 you tube videos on building wooden rockers!
The different stages of life chairs are wonderful! There is a lot of insight in them. Thank you for creating them!