Summer 2011 (or Patience)

This summer at Nimrod Hall, I found myself drawn to chairs and reflections on patience and waiting. The old Civil War song, “The Vacant Chair,” has long been important to me in thinking about loss and what remains: We shall meet, but we shall miss him, there will be one vacant chair. Also, I stumbled on a poem by Kay Ryan, which says “Who would have guessed it possible that waiting is sustainable—a place with its own harvests. Or that in time’s fullness the diamonds of patience couldn’t be distinguished from the genuine in brilliance or hardness.”

So here are some paintings about waiting.

Green Rocker

Green Dining Room Chair

Bedroom Chair with Pink Jacket

Two Chairs (Waiting)

Three Chairs

Black Chair

Rocker on the Lawn

Cane Bottom Chair

Red Lawn Chair

In Storage