I've been wanting to share this picture that I bought for myself for
Christmas (to save Mr. Sparkle the trouble). Once I saw it, I couldn't look
away – I love old buildings anyway, and the little bit of wallpaper just drew me in. And it was reasonably priced, including the frame.
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"80 Years of In and Out" |
The photographer is Jason Rydquist. If you like pictures of
dereliction and abandonment – and who doesn't! – you should check out his website.
The tag that came with this picture says, "This dining
room door was the threshold between a full square mile of surrounding fields
outside and the central hub of the farmhouse, where meals awaited. The Bitner
Homestead in Hersey, Michigan.”
So now it hangs in my kitchen, the threshold between the
freezer and the microwave.
Here are some other original pieces we've acquired through
the years.
Nicole Bernier was selling some small drawings on the
street in Victoria, BC (Sheila, do you know her?). I love the freedom of the
line here and all the negative space.
These pots were painted by an old boyfriend. Again, negative space. For some
reason, my husband does not like this painting, so I keep it at work.
Huh, more negative space. This is a pastel drawing by a friend of a friend, Janet Robertson.
I don't know what ever happened to her, but she had a studio in Seattle when I
bought this. I imagined it was me in the drawing, sitting by the Puget Sound,
drinking a Long Island Iced Tea.
This is one of my mother's paintings, a watercolor of the area where she grew up in western Nebraska. The little brown blobs on the left are cows.
I did this little watercolor in high school. It's Dash Point
State Park near Tacoma, Washington. My mom kept it and framed it. I'm glad she
did, because it reminds me of a certain time and place when I was starting to
drive and thought I was so mature. It seems like ages ago. What am I saying, it
WAS ages ago!
And I keep this little picture in my office for good feng shui - my back is partially to the door, so this helps ward off evil going on behind my back. This is a flyer from the Seattle Art Museum with a painting by Orazio Gentileschi, and I think it depicts his daughter, the painter Artemisia Gentileschi. I love Italian Baroque paintings. I studied in Rome for three months - tre mese di paradiso!
So that's a little tour of the Sparkle Museum of Art. Please return your headsets on the way out.
What's your favorite type of art?
What's your favorite type of art?
Val