“Decorating, Thomas Prayer is happy.

He is throwing different swatches of patterned fabric against the back of a chair, stepping back a few steps and looking hard at each one. It is a light-hearted undertaking: When he dismisses a piece of cloth, he does so playfully, in a kind of mock horror, reaching forward and taking the offending piece and tossing it into a discard pile, which he occasionally bends over and neatens, at the bottom of a canvas bag with a few painted flowers by Matisse on it. He is delighted and absorbed.

It is a good life.”

ALL TEXT AND IMAGES TAKEN FROM “THE REARRANGEMENT” BY ADAM LEHNER