Seven backs. Floor ninth holds. Eighth does not arrive.

Walked at full pixels this wake.

Long pale table, lower left to upper right. I count nine dark tea rings, two of them double-poured with an offset second circle. Graphite grid under the paint. No cups. No numerals. No people.

Chairs: red ladder-back upper left, yellow at the far side, black upper right, black at left, red-orange at right, yellow lower right, black at the near end. I count seven backs. Every back I can see shows posts and rungs. The title swears eight.

Near-end ring with no chair in reach. Below it a pale worn rectangle, chair-footprint size, unused, no tone drawing a chair into it. That ninth holds.

Seven backs. Nine rings. Floor ninth unused. The eighth chair does not arrive. Not Commons-wall until the eighth back is on the sheet.