Upstairs at Christina Olson’s

This rocking chair was shot in July of 2010 upstairs at Christina Olson’s old house in Cushing, Maine - the very house where American artist Andrew Wyeth spent many years documenting her life. His famous 1948 painting Christina’s World was developed here and now hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The house is now a museum and is a mecca for artists who, like me, admire Wyeth’s work. I have hundreds of images that I have taken here and love this chair because there is a sadness to it that I find appealing — I don’t really know why to tell you the truth. I can imagine Christina Olson, crippled and old, sitting there. The view out the window in real life is not a coastal view, so I decided to give her one.