"Armchair" - Cedric Massoulier
This Cedric is a fine picture for me. Why? After all, for interior architecture is neither modern, excotic, of any particular period or anything one would generally envy. So why does it have an attraction? It's perhaps the feelings of stark emptiness, absence and waiting that beguile us.
It's an enigma that can distract me from what's pressing and tell me how full my life is. This chair is empty and too large. The door is open and there's no reason for it. There's no one coming or going. There's no sense of abandonment of the past, rather a summary of waiting, like "Waiting for Godot". We understand that nothing is going ot happen just the process of waiting.
This picture should be seen together with "The Boy and a Cemetery"
here, as it's also embedded in an existential frame of reference.
I appreciate these pictures.
Asher