My beloved bought two Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona chairs a couple of years ago.  I have been lounging in them ever since.  I know the chairs since my student days, as well, when the great architect was my hero.  But it took me a long while to notice that the leather cushions on the seat and backrest sport one of my favorite grids.  The two-by-three grid, to be precise.  Together with the four-by-six grid, its closest relative, it is embedded into many of my paintings.  The last couple of days I have been racking my brain about my surprising blindness.  How could I possibly miss such an important example of an entoptic form that still survives in ornaments of all sorts, including those swallowed by architectural design at its least ornamental?  Unable to come up with a meaningful answer to such nagging questions, I anxiously begged my beloved for her camera.  As though a few quick photographs documenting my belated discovery could ever cure my intractable blindness.