You’re visiting your dear friend Chelsea for tea and catching up. Her house is as interesting and welcoming as always. You love the nuanced color combinations, the witty juxtaposition of antiques and glass-with-chrome and the good jazz coming from the far corner of the bookcase. Then you notice a new art work. It’s a still life nicely framed with a generous museum-grade 4” mat.
Two possibilities:
One, you’re taken aback, you don’t know what to say and you try not to stare. You think something has happened to dear Chelsea. She seems like her old self, speaks in complete sentences, with her usual intelligent sense of humor, shows interest in your life, remembers everything and converses as gracefully as always. But what’s up with that drawing there? It’s not finished!!! How could she! What kind of person frames an unfinished drawing!! How irresponsible! Uncivilized! Disrespectful! Better watch her closely. Has she been drinking? Was she on something all these years you’ve known her and now suddenly she’s gone cold turkey?
Two, you’re thrilled, excited, inspired, uplifted and liberated by this incompletion. You and Chelsea smile quietly. No need for verbalizations, for explanations, for theories or for questions. It’s all there. Conversation flows, cups tip and click.
Later, alone at home on your computer, you review the last few posts of the artamaze blog. You scroll down at the other drawings of this kitchen still life with peaches, pears and cup. At the sight of every one of these drawings you jump up and shout out loud, “FRAME THAT!”
https://artamaze.wordpress.com/2020/05/12/still-life-with-peaches-pear-and-cup-1/
https://artamaze.wordpress.com/2020/05/13/still-life-with-peaches-pear-and-cup-2/
https://artamaze.wordpress.com/2020/05/14/still-life-with-peaches-pear-and-cup-3/
https://artamaze.wordpress.com/2020/05/15/still-life-with-peaches-pear-and-cup-4/
https://artamaze.wordpress.com/2020/05/16/still-life-with-peaches-pear-and-cup-5/
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