The Artist’s Eye

Five or six years ago, while living in Montreal I went to an art exhibition that blew me away. The artist was Mark Lang. I love appropriation as a form of art and Lang has to be one of the greatest in the field. Check out his appropriation of Jan Van Eyck’s Les époux Arnolfini. Notice the adaptations of Lang. It is quite the analogy and really, have things changed that much over time? Not really, it seems. Perhaps that’s why so many of us find comfort in the warmth of older houses and decors.

Let others show you art!

Marriage, by Mark Lang. Oil on canvas 60″ x 49″, 2009

The Arnolfini Portrait, by Jan van Eyck, 1434

For just one day

Although I’m in avoidance mode, I still have so many things to say. Last week’s daily post “Freaky Friday” got me thinking – oh and how I wish I could swap this whole situation with someone who actually deserves to understand it (why am I being so nice?).

Simple genuine pride

Where the clover grows wild (goodies), 2007, oil on canvas, 15″ x 15″ by Darlene Cole

If there were one thing I’d want to change about my childhood, I couldn’t think of any. Not because I was raised in a castle or extravagance but because, while I was growing up, my life was my castle.