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| Where we sit on the yellow chair Dryden, ON June 2025 This photo originally shared on Instagram |
Like this scene captured a few months back in an Airbnb far from home. Normally a dining room chair and table wouldn’t merit much attention beyond a casual glance, but for reasons I’ll likely never be able to explain, the scene grabbed onto me and wouldn’t let go.
This happens to me all the time, where I’ll suddenly notice something overtly mundane and before I know it I’m thinking of ways to capture it.
I recall thinking it felt like an Ikea catalog, that curious mixture of stark surfacing and occasional pops of colour, all bathed in a gauzy kind of light. But beyond the marketing tie-in, it also felt like a space disconnected from anything else, a spot where a single person could spend some quiet time undisturbed by the outside world.
There’s also a story being told by what isn’t visible, the rest of the table just outside of the frame, the other chairs that may or may not be empty. A reminder, perhaps, of the choices we make when we compose a moment, the things we decide to include vs. the things we leave out.
In a way it’s a photo of a seemingly empty table and chair, but the more I ponder not only this photo and all the others I seem to take, I’m thinking maybe it’s some kind of broader metaphor for how we choose to live our lives.
Because even if it looks like we’re alone, there’s always more to the story than what we first see.
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