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.
We have a hideous electric recliner chair we were forced to purchase when my husband was injured during the pandemic. Our cat loves it so much it is still in our living room.
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!
Love love love these...I love to read/enjoy your work before I go to bed because I have a smile on my face when drifting off to dreamland. Bravo, or is it Brava. Anyway, thanks. xo
Our dining table has been flanked with fold up chairs for the past three years because we can't find anything comfortable enough to replace them. I never thought a good chair could be so hard to find!
Details matter: I wanted to toss the chair off our back porch but it was too big. That would have brought a smile. I pushed it down a hallway ripping out the sheetrock and bannisters and kinda getting myself stuck in the mess. The chair was soon on the front lawn with a "free--please take" sign. It was a process of release. I am a carpenter and I had to fix the walls I scraped into pieces. 30 years later my love and I exchange a few caring words on birthdays.
Your work is truly marvelous. You reveal our flaws and struggles and delights. Scores of us say "I coulda done that....." No, not really. The simplicity of your work is one of your strengths. I figure you have 137 ideas a day...or something like that.....smile always........
Letting go is a process, so true. And I find it interesting that you had to fix the hallway afterwards as well. Glad you two are now friends.
Thanks yet again for your kind words. I love simplicity and try to promote it now as much as I can because the world is getting so digitized and artwork can be so overdone (in print stuff). Simple can speak louder, I think. But yet the details do tell a story sometimes. But details can be simple!
I’m grinning as I look at all of these.
The series of chairs with concomitant experience 👌🏼.
Love your new chair
Love that old Chairs I Have Known!
We have a hideous electric recliner chair we were forced to purchase when my husband was injured during the pandemic. Our cat loves it so much it is still in our living room.
Ha! I get that. Cats rule, don't they? We bought a rather large chair specifically for our elderly cat once.
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!
I have my great-grandmother Gram's rocker still! Love your story about tossing a chair down stairs in anger!
Love love love these...I love to read/enjoy your work before I go to bed because I have a smile on my face when drifting off to dreamland. Bravo, or is it Brava. Anyway, thanks. xo
Thank you, Allia!!
Boo to that stool!
The different stages of life chairs are wonderful! There is a lot of insight in them. Thank you for creating them!
Our dining table has been flanked with fold up chairs for the past three years because we can't find anything comfortable enough to replace them. I never thought a good chair could be so hard to find!
My favorite chair is the winged blue upholstered chair drawn by Fred Marcellino for the original dust jacket of The Accidental Tourist.
Wow!!
Details matter: I wanted to toss the chair off our back porch but it was too big. That would have brought a smile. I pushed it down a hallway ripping out the sheetrock and bannisters and kinda getting myself stuck in the mess. The chair was soon on the front lawn with a "free--please take" sign. It was a process of release. I am a carpenter and I had to fix the walls I scraped into pieces. 30 years later my love and I exchange a few caring words on birthdays.
Your work is truly marvelous. You reveal our flaws and struggles and delights. Scores of us say "I coulda done that....." No, not really. The simplicity of your work is one of your strengths. I figure you have 137 ideas a day...or something like that.....smile always........
Letting go is a process, so true. And I find it interesting that you had to fix the hallway afterwards as well. Glad you two are now friends.
Thanks yet again for your kind words. I love simplicity and try to promote it now as much as I can because the world is getting so digitized and artwork can be so overdone (in print stuff). Simple can speak louder, I think. But yet the details do tell a story sometimes. But details can be simple!