the Academic side of art

I have been struggling along with a show proposal that treats the theme of the Chair By the Side of the Road. I am not going to make deadline-this is a subject I've been visiting over the ye years but it has not informed a cohesive body of work. I have a couple of pages about the symbolism and ubiquity of the Chairs, but the works reflect the disparate styles I went through. I don't have time to paint twenty chair paintings. I am not going with the manhole lids. A quandry.