{"id":1398,"date":"2012-11-02T10:21:37","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T17:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.wordpress.com\/?p=1398"},"modified":"2012-11-02T10:21:37","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T17:21:37","slug":"the-presence-of-absence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisathorpe.com\/index.php\/2012\/11\/02\/the-presence-of-absence\/","title":{"rendered":"The Presence of Absence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1399\" style=\"width: 658px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/11\/128-assebly-of-chairs.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1399\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1399\" title=\"An Assembly of chairs\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/11\/128-assebly-of-chairs.jpg?resize=648%2C562\" height=\"562\" width=\"648\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1399\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Assembly of Chairs six mono-prints set together<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This week I spent time in my studio making mono-prints.\u00a0 And while I made a few prints of other images I kept coming back to the empty chair.\u00a0 I love the empty chair as subject and have been drawn to it in painting, print, drawing and collage time and time again. The empty chair can mean so many things; it is both invitation and invocation.\u00a0 An invitation to sit and be still to be aware of the moment, and an invocation, a prayer an acknowledgement of loss and emptiness, a <i>presence of absence<\/i> that is part of the fullness of life.\u00a0 I first heard this turn of phase was at the memorial of a family friend.\u00a0 Pat Moore, the chaplain at The Bishop\u2019s Ranch, summoned this image to express the deep and heavy weight of the empty space left by loss.\u00a0 A <i>presence of absence<\/i> so strong and so bold it weighs down the breath like a stubborn cat sleeping on your chest and shocks the heart like a sharp, sudden, shot in the night.\u00a0 In these great moments of loss there is an emptiness so deep and wide that one must stop and bow to its power there is no ignoring it.\u00a0 There are smaller examples of the presence of absence; like a love let go, a job lost, an empty nest, impaired health. I think too there is a presence of absence that brings great relief and joy.\u00a0 Just think back to the feeling on the last day of school, or your last final before college break, or when you sit down on an airplane finally on vacation not getting ready for vacation but <i>on<\/i> vacation.\u00a0 The presence of absence here is a lifting of stress, filling the lungs with a long deep, warm breath.\u00a0 All these absences are there for us to greet, embrace, behold and learn from.\u00a0 Keep a comfy chair ready for the presence of absence because it will come and when it does, in all it\u2019s forms, it\u2019s best to have a place set and a cup of tea ready to sit down with it a learn what you can from the powerful emptiness that comes with the joys and bereavements inherent in the human experience.<\/p>\n<p><i>Read Pat Moore&#8217;s blog about the presence of absence \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/ataslant.blogspot.com\/2012\/09\/leaving-spaces-empty.html\">Leaving Spaces Empty<\/a>\u201d.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I spent time in my studio making mono-prints.\u00a0 And while I made a few prints of other images I kept coming back to the empty chair.\u00a0 I love the empty chair as subject and have been drawn to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[37,88],"tags":[222,312,533,765],"class_list":["post-1398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-inspiration","tag-chairs","tag-empty-space","tag-monoprints","tag-the-presence-of-absence"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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