Art is a Time Machine

What’s on Your Walls–part 2

If you have a blank wall in your home it’s dead space. It’s closing in on you, closer and closer, making your room feel smaller than it is.

When you put art, or photos, or a mirror on your walls you’ve made your space larger, opened it up…ahh more breathable.

A mirror placed strategically on a wall opposite a window reflects the outdoors and the light, and almost acts as an inside window.

Art or photos hung on inside walls give you portals to other places, people, and feelings. A landscape gives you a vista in another place in the world—somewhere you’ve been or would like to visit. A still life might remind you of a special place in your mom’s house. An abstract’s swirling colors might relax you or excite you.

Art is like a time machine. All the feelings of the piece take you right there. Your home is expanded across time, space, memories, feelings—better than a dream—and all is right with the world.

I painted this on a weekend trip when I lived in California and I look at it an remember every bit of that weekend. Do you have a photo from a trip that would make a great painting for your wall? Maybe we should talk.

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Dance of the Sycamores