That narrowed me down to three…the Target Brookline, the Overstock Bellcrest and the World Market Harper. I like that it would add some much needed interest and it looks rich without looking stuffy. So after a lot of thought and effort, I decided….yes, I would need at least 8 chairs + 2 head chairs (don’t get me started) and they would need to be cheap. I know that the slipcover on our couch is AMAZEHEADS (I’m trying that saying out…ya know…cause ‘amazeballs’ is not something I want Will repeating at his churchy preschool…that’s all I need…) but the couch gets used every single day and I can bleach it…so I worried that a slipcovered chair that is all white would need bleached after every meal (and end up being ill fitting after all that cleaning) and could blend into the molding & chair railing that is already white in the dining room. I considered lots of slipcovered options. Especially when it means I’m dropping at least $800 in chairs. I know what I am and know what I like…and neutral is my jam baby. The chair also needed to have a neutral color. We were looking for something that had a little interest (whether it be a pattern, a texture, a detail like tufting or nailhead)…so the plain parson’s chair was out. So as we waited to sock away enough for eight (to ten) new chairs, we narrowed down the bazillion choices to our top million…then to the top thousand…then to the top 100…then we needed a break…and a coke….and then got down to top ten. Our kitchen table was $18 at a yard sale (that I made over), the bench was $15 at Goodwill and the chairs were hand me downs from my mother (that I made over too)….long story short…eight new chairs = some serious moolah. I mean seriously…every single store had like two options that I could totally work with. We actually knew that up front we would need chairs but the real surprise came when I found so many options. But we needed new chairs because those modern stackable ones weren’t looking fly with this brown guy. The problem area as it is right now….(no, not my saddle bags…although those are an issue with my bathing suit): I have one derriere and too many chair choices. I love that movie.Īctually the quote goes “You can’t ride two horses with one Sugarbean” but the idea is the same. Just like the landscape itself.That’s one of my favorite quotes from Sweet Home Alabama. “It should always draw you in and reveal something new. “I always think that a good painting should never just be seen once,” she observes. Her paintings reproduce some part of what it means not only to look at a place but become a part of it. Her kinetic brushstrokes are animated by sounds and smells and filled with the unmistakable sense of life in motion. When she talks of her paintings, Perceval evokes a multisensory experience. While most people think of a painting in purely ocular terms-they focus on what they can see-Perceval reaches beyond this. Yet Perceval’s paintings do more than just memorialise a vision of place. I wish we could just be part of it.” Perceval’s work draws her out of the built up environment of the city and manicured lawns of the suburbs to a wilderness, where the disorder of nature still prevails. “I feel like I’m painting what’s left of that landscape. “We change the landscape too much,” she says. Her process is less about taking control, and more about relinquishing this very thing. Perceval’s paintings could not be more different. Yet this tradition often tends to be based around acts of artistic control: the attempt to arrest some small part of the natural world-to freeze it-and to transfer this frozen image onto the canvas. There is, of course, an established tradition of landscape painters going out into nature and painting en plein air. I won’t say anything to anyone, but I always know that I’m going to go back there.” “I walk past something that speaks to me. “There is no other way of finding inspiration, other than being there.” Perceval pauses before going on. “I’m always going off the main thoroughfares into places where it looks like I can’t,’ she says. For decades, Perceval has ventured out into the bush in search of the ineffable-looking for an unnameable something in the wilderness. It is a process that takes her out of the comforts and the confines of an air conditioned artist’s studio, and instead places her in the midst of the Australian landscape. Everything has its place.” Perceval is describing her painting process. “The landscape really does have a meaning, a character. “The longer you sit in one remote spot in the bush, the more you become part of it,” Celia Perceval explains.
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