While I am here- the Queen Anne and Chippendale ball and claw foot dates to the early 18th century.

I was an art major years ago and I was very interested at the time in the history of furniture design. So I went to my text: the ball and claw foot was used on Queen Anne and Chippendale furniture ( chairs) and those that were/are made in that style ever since. We had a table with ball and claw feet ( my mother still has it), This is from the Chinese- the claw is of either a dragon or bird and the ball represents the pearl of wisdom.

The chair itself – the idea- can send one off in directions too. It’s a place where you go to rest your weary body. It’s a place where you put yourself to listen and offer in conversation, share a meal. Or you can stand on it to change a light bulb ( or to get away from a mouse). You can throw a chair and break it in anger. You can be confined to one, helpless.

Bill Flynn says that there is more in this all than he can grasp. I sure can sense that for me too- the more I sink into this and I have not even looked at the drawings well enough, just listened.

What is interesting is that BF found himself in this chair. It could have been anything… but he seized this and stuck with it and it’s become part of his language, his point of departures, where he beings to focus. And he seems to be standing on the body of work he is building under the chair to lift himself somewhere.

Too long ago I gave up drawing but this is an inspiration to get going again. There is nothing like drawing. Drawing is like writing; it comes forward from somewhere inside.

Glad that you could bring some of Bill’s treasure to light through this wonderful interview. They don’t come any better.