cobaltika

where i eat my words

perhaps you will remember a few months ago, a ranty post i made about figurative art and my lack of preference for it? in fact, i probably worded it much more strongly than that. well, i’m blushing now. i have both *purchased* and *hung* a piece of figurative art in MY HOME. YES.

a couple of weeks ago, just about the time i sent in my online tax refund thingie, i saw this piece on MizKatie’s journal. she jumped right out at me, her little story of wandering in the snow in her nightgown, her fey face, the SNOW, the housey in the background, her RED HAIR and pearls! i thought it was a portrait of my interior self, especially this winter. i had to have her!! and now i do. she lives in a fancy gilded frame in my studio, next to a lace-curtained window. maybe she will live in my nestRoom one day, but i can only hang one thing at a time in there and i am still fond of my altaristic crosses right now.

i have known Katie for a long time, online. she even lives in Kansas like me. maybe one day we will take our cameras out and wander around in some Kansas ghost towns. who knows? so i have to eat my words. i LOVE her figurative art. there is something about her people that is slightly melancholy, but hopeful, a little gritty, very very dear. and the texture of the paint - YUM. i strongly recommend that you go take a look for yourSelf. her new pieces are making me want a parade on my wall…

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