Hanging Around The House 8: The Upstairs Halls

Continuing the series of posts that try to capture the various pieces of art I have hanging around the house. Remember that these posts are made up of quick snapshots–these are hardly professional images, and the upstairs images are worse than the downstairs ones since the angles I could use to take the snapshots are much more highly constrained. The images in the post link to larger images.

The various hallways between rooms also carry quite a bit of art. These tend to be more recent (i.e. acquired in the last five years) pieces.

This piece is a print of “The Wall” by Jeff Jones (one of many Jones pieces around the house), that has had a really lovely framing job done to itYes, this is another of those cases where the framing costs more than ten times what the print cost…. There was some debate about the presence of artistic nudity in such a high traffic area, but in the end my contention of artistic merit won out, so there it hangs.

This piece, “Bel Canto” by Michael Zulli, hangs in the hallway between the public areas of the house and the bedrooms. This is a signed, limited edition print–you can see signature and number in the large image. The framing uses a black velvet matte, which creates a “blacker-than-black” border around the image, for a very striking effect.

You might recall that in the basement I have a big arrangement of the original art for the final four pages of Scott Morse‘s Soulwind. At the same time I got those pages, I also got the original art for pages 57 and 58 of the final volume of the work. These two pages are important to the story, but more importantly to me they stand on their own as a statement about the nature of process philosophy and the nature of cats. These are framed with the same style of frame as the polyptych downstairs.

These might be the things that I most often stop to look at as I travel through the house.

(I should point out that there are only a few pages done in this inkbrush style out of the 520 pages of the Soulwind story; the majority of the pages are in other styles, most of which are more “cartoony”. I just happen to really like those pages.)

Finally we have “The Writer’s Prayer”, the last of the Gaiman Christmas cards for which I had professional framing done. (The others are in the foyer.)