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The Lonely Pier

A structure built for crowds, painted at the hour nobody comes.

The Lonely Pier — square acrylic seascape in deep blues, a dark pier on cross-braced pilings reaching from the left edge, its reflection broken across the water, a wave curling toward the right, three birds, and a bank of cloud over a pale horizon

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Almost everything in The Lonely Pier is blue, which is a way of saying almost everything is distance. The pier enters from the left on cross-braced legs and stops before it gets anywhere—structures like this are always promising to deliver you somewhere and never quite doing it.

I was after the particular quiet of a built thing at an unpopular hour. The water takes the pilings and breaks them into ribbons; the wave to the right is the only argument in the painting. A pier is a piece of human insistence stuck out into something that doesn’t care, and at this hour you can see the whole negotiation at once.