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Spent many hours both yesterday and today walking around the city, dropping in on various Somerville Open Studious sites. Variably sized adventuring parties both days led by cthulhia. Today I bought a lot of art, spending more with each successive purchase until I had topped three figures. The idea is that these'll all decorate my new apartment, the first apartment I'm going to put real effort into furnishing and decorating, making it a nice place for me to come home to, and others to come visit. A lot of a home's identity gets caught up in its art and furniture, you see, so when the person moves, all the stuff might end up in a wholly different place, arranged 'round the floors and walls to suit the new home's shape, but asserting the very same sense of home and individuality unto those walls as they did before the move. Very important.

• Two watercolor prints of Venetian buildings (one the watery reflection of the other). The artist said she'd quit her high-tech job and taken up painting only a couple of years ago, which I wouldn't have guessed. I like to find datapoints of people who, mid-life (for various definitions of "mid-life"), pick up something new and get really good at it.


• A print of a colorful blue cartoony lady. It's actually a crappy print(out), a poor digitization of an analog painting, filled with aliasing that I didn't notice until after i'd bought it. (And despite cth saying "Gee, that looks pixelated" at it, when I wasn't paying attention.) Kind of a bummer. Good enough to tape up somewhere informal, I guess.


• A large postcard-print of green water plants on a black background.


• A photograph of some bottles in a box. I had a hard time choosing between that and a photo of an ancient collapsed house on a barren hill against a blue sky. I almost bought both, but balked at spending $70 in one go.


• The gem (almost literally) of this haul: an isohedron box made from 20 differently colored glass triangles, welded together. Five of the faces make up the hinged lid. I think it would be fun to keep miscellaneous loose gaming paraphernalia -- such as dice -- within.

Also saw more stuff I wanted at a little gallery-shop at Ball Square I didn't know about. I'll return there later.

Comments

[ex-colorwhe.livejournal.com]

Oh, had I only known you like art! My moms is an artist and had Open Studios last weekend (North Cambridge, which sometimes does same weekend as Somerville but sometimes not). Maybe next year.

[poetgeek.livejournal.com]

This inspires me to put up the art I've had *leaning against various walls* since Feb sometime.

[magid.livejournal.com]

I'd like to see the things you got.... when would you like another cooking session? :-)