"'It is beauty, like truth, which brings joy to the heart of man and…which unites generations and makes them share things in admiration.' - Pope St. Paul VI
"'I've been meaning to tell you,' said my wife, Nancy. 'That new picture you got from the library? You hung it upside down.'
"She was referring to 'Goldfinch and Cherry Tree'
(c. 1834) by Hokusai Katsushika. It's the latest installment in our
household gallery which features a solitary work of art, intermittently
alternated, at the bottom of our main staircase. Our source is the main
branch of the superb St. Joseph County Public Library, which has an extensive collection of framed prints that patrons can check out for a few weeks at a time. . . .
"By default, I’ve become the curator of our own rotating
display. I'll turn in the previous selection at the circulation desk,
and then head upstairs to browse the available collection. Sometimes
I'll search for a specific print, especially if someone at home made a
request, but usually I'll just go with my gut and choose something that
catches my fancy at the moment. . . .
"And that's one of the joys of this routine now that we've been doing it
for so many years. Some of the repeat picks have become familiar to us
all, and we even have certain ones that stand out in our memories. . . ."
A recent God-Haunted Lunatic commentary offered a reflection on the blessing of a home art gallery.
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God-Haunted Lunatic: Our Stairwell Gallery: A Familial Experiment in Art Appreciation (31 MAR 19)
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