South Room - Green Street 1920

Daniel Garber made *South Room – Green Street* with oil on canvas, and, my god, I can almost smell the linseed. Look at the way the light pours in, thick and buttery. You can see Garber, brush in hand, squinting, trying to capture that fleeting moment. I bet he mixed those colors right on the canvas, swirling blues and yellows, building up the texture like a delicious impasto. I wonder what he was thinking as he painted. Maybe he was chasing that elusive feeling when the world reveals itself in a new way. I imagine him stepping back, head tilted, judging, adjusting. He’s in conversation with the light, with the figures, with the painting itself. That shimmering light—the way it fractures and dances across the scene—reminds me of other painters grappling with the same problems of representation: how to capture the ephemeral, the fleeting, the in-between spaces. We are all in conversation, borrowing, stealing, and riffing off of each other. Painting is an embodied experience, a conversation with the past, and an invitation to the future.