My most treasured possessionWhat's your most treasured possession? What would you rescue from a fire (be it for sentimental or purely financial reasons)?
My Great-Uncle left me his visitors book which along with boring people like the Queen and Harold Wilson has Spike Milligan's signature in it. It's all loopy.
Either that or my Grandfather's swords.
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chthonic, Thu 8 May 2008, 12:38)
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One painting in particular.I refer to my girlfriend on here as the Lunatic Artist for a reason- even though she makes her living doing administrative work, she's a very accomplished painter.
A couple of years ago, when we had been living together for a few months, she had an oddball painting that was of a strangely distorted bird in an electric-bright tree. She worked on that thing for a month or two, the one day layered it with gesso to cover it up and start over again. This startled me a little, but she said that she had been getting annoyed by the painting because it wasn't turning into what she wanted.
She started painting a very odd and abstract thing with a dark horizon line across the middle of it. On the left it's got a lot of reds and yellows and sorta fluffy looking shapes; in the middle it gets a bit darker and has some rather chaotic geometric shapes; toward the right it gets darker with blues and greys swirled in somewhat stormy shapes. As she worked on it the painting got pretty wild looking, but I could start to see the logic behind it as the soft rosy world melded into a confusing jumble of shapes that gave way to mists and swirls of darkness.
She finished it and gave it to me. Its title is "Timeline". It now hangs in my dining room, alone on that one wall, and I'm very fond of it.
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The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Thu 8 May 2008, 14:18,
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I like the sound of thatdoes she do commissions?
my recently decorated living room needs a large piece of art, and you can't beat originals by people who don't make a huge living out of it
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Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 8 May 2008, 14:48,
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I think she'd love it.She's never sold a piece, but she would be thrilled to do so. Gaz me an email address and I can shoot you some pictures of stuff she's done.
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The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Thu 8 May 2008, 14:55,
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if only ...... there was some way this internet thingy would allow us to see what the painting looks like.
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