Stern Seat
by Phil Chadwick
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Dimensions
10.000 x 12.000 x 1.000 inches
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Title
Stern Seat
Artist
Phil Chadwick
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
There are a lot of hidden meanings here. The stern seat was empty. I was paddling from the bow seat and looking backward. The cedar strip canoe was symmetric so this is the typical manoeuvre to paddling a longer canoe solo. It was windy in the main portion of Buck Lake so I needed to shift my bulk to the middle side on several occasions in order to keep the canoe stable and going forward in the direction that I wanted to go. It felt good to paddle the old cedar canoe. It had a lot of character.
The word stern has several intersting meanings:
-as a noun, it is the rear part of a ship
-as an adjective (of a person or their manner) serious and unrelenting, especially in the assertion of authority and exercise of discipline.
I would much prefer to have the seat in the back empty than have a stern person anywhere in the same canoe with me.
There is a Yin Yang side to this painting. One side was in shadow even with the midday sun. The lower solar elevation still put the starboard side of the canoe in the shade. I was paddling easterly. The light lit up the layers of old varnish covering the old cedar strips. This is an unusual composition for me as I paddled into and through the vegetation in a shallow part of Buck Lake. I felt that I could push through the weeds and get to the deeper water on the other side. I was on my way to the outlet of Buck Lake.
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October 30th, 2016
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