Van Gogh’s Moveable Feast

What I learned about community by studying Van Gogh’s chair

Vincent van Gogh, Van Gogh’s Chair, 1888, National Gallery, London (public domain)

As an art teacher, empty chairs hold a special significance. I think of all the chairs in all the art rooms in all the schools I taught in over the years. Student occupants may have tumbled downstream and out the door, but the chairs remained steady rocks despite the constant coursing of time.