Restful Row I

Restful Row takes its name, not without irony, from the two sun loungers on that terrace that came with the house in Saint-Étienne-du-Grès. They were tried once. They were unusable, offering no comfort and no rest.  They will remain decorative until their removal. The result is a single photograph, worked into five versions in shifting registers of warmth, from rose through to a chalky beige, then sliced into vertical strips and reassembled slightly out of true. The image moved but everything around it froze. 
Seen now, the row of two empty chairs reads less like a record of rest than a monument to its absence, two pieces of garden furniture doing a very convincing impression of a normal holiday.