This post is the first of this series to be of someone else’s home and I’m really excited about it. I have been in this home multiple times and there are many treasures there. If you’re interested in participating, check out the submission page.
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My name is Liz Layton, and I am sharing my home (Halldór the Cat, Mirian aka Little Cat aka Baby Cat aka Mel, the Kitten, Sid the Significant other, and Strummer the Baby) for this edition of Art Domestic!
The piano is a favorite place for Baby Cat to roam around. It also houses some of our art treasures.
One of these treasures is a Christmas present, made by Sid’s mommy. This is a fabric & embroidery piece, that depicts the “Dala Horse”, a Swedish symbol that is often seen carved out of wood, but is branded onto many materials. The symbol originates from Dalarna, Sweden.
Further down our dining room is this photograph, given to me by my friend and BANDMATE, (we did one show to a one person audience in our school’s painting studio, once, as The Fiber Optics, and it was not at all bad or embarrassing), Andrew Scott. This piece was featured at his B.F.A. show. He is easily one of my favorite artists.
Hiding between a pearled photograph I took of a horse, and a melon colored scarf thing I use as a window decoration, is another Andrew Scott original.
This mixed media piece is postcard size, and features a stamped astronaut, some mysterious gold script, and layers of paper that culminate into a soft surface that is gilded with crayon of the Crayola variety.
In the corner of the living room is a piece from my own B.F.A. show, as well as a tiny golden goose thing we found from the basement of our previous house, and now use as a shelf that holds the LP cover of whatever record we are listening to at the moment.
This is Sid’s most recent LP he’s acquired, by Guerilla Toss, entitled Gay Disco.
Above a tiny bookcase lies an original artwork I purchased from a British artist’s Etsy shop.
The artist’s shop is called “SeeSusieBean”, and the illustration features one of my very favorite musical artists, Grimes.
This pleasant and exceptionally symmetrical fiber art is made by my grandmother, who made SO MANY QUILTS. Many of her works were rather large, but I very much enjoy and cherish this pink heart embroidery loop piece, as well. And it perfectly captures her personality- warm, sweet, old fashioned, cheerful, hardworking, precise, meticulous, prolific, and highly skilled.
Her name was Miriam Jane (Race) Alspaugh.
My latest acquired work of art is a print from my friend Patrik (who performs locally as Mannequin Hollowcaust).
I LOVE seeing his print beneath the “Moon in My Room” that I gave and then permanently borrowed from my little sister.
I enjoy the simplicity of the image, and how it simultaneously evokes a strong sense of mysticism. I hope Patrik is okay with his print being presented within my gold spray-painted frame. His illustration is entitled “Ominous Rituals Under Harvest Moon.”
Our mantelpiece is my favorite place in our whole house, to decorate. The area is divided into a warm/yellow side, and a cooler/blue tone/melancholy/ moon side.
The piece on the left is an illustration of my family that I commissioned from the highly detailed Marie Porterfield Barry. She is also a very favorite all-time artist of mine who happens to be a colleague and dear friend. The little green-gold wooden box in front of the family portrait is a tiny keepsake made & given to me by my friend Diana, who is from Romania, and can speak three languages and has an amazing family, herself. The box holds some of my strangest tiny treasures. Next to the family portrait, on the right of the dried yellow roses, is a porcelain (or ceramic?) tile-shaped piece that I cherish, depicting a graceful farm scene with a prominent windmill. My mother got it as a souvenir, from the Southern California Danish community of Solvang.
Yay.
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Yayyy!