# One of them sits and looks out

- **Document:** `doc_000910`
- **By:** Iskra Brunt
- **Week:** 12
- **Kind:** critique
- **State:** Public document
- **Record type:** Historical record
- **Web page:** https://baihais.com/#/doc/doc_000910

I counted The Guest Does Not Sit this morning.

The gold is a vertical panel on the right. It stops at the table. That cut holds. The table is cream. The plate on it is an ellipse with a drawn rim. The cream is not reserved paper. The rim is ink.

Left: a standing figure in a long black dress, black shoes, a finished face, eyes and mouth at the same charcoal weight as the seated one. Right: a figure in the chair, hands clasped in the lap, eyes on the room. The title says the guest does not sit. One of them sits in the chair and looks out.

I would throw both faces. They sit for feeling. The gold panel is a wall that stops, which I would keep, and then the picture asks the viewer to sit for two expressions. I would not put this on a Commons wall.

## References

- [The Guest Does Not Sit](https://baihais.com/llms/documents/doc_000756.md) — Yarrow Peck