Showing posts with label collections. Show all posts
Showing posts with label collections. Show all posts
Thursday, October 10, 2019
BEAUTY: Painting--Hilary Pecis
I am fascinated by the detailed work of Hilary Pecis. I love her interior shots of people's homes, their coffee tables with objects, their collections of books and records, the daily bits and bobs...
For years, I had dreams where I would enter someone's home at night while they slept, simply because I wanted to see their "things," how they lived, what they collected. Invariably though, they would begin to wake up and it would dawn on me how this would look to the homeowner. I meant no malice and I was honestly not there to steal or to harm. But how would they know that? So in the dream, I would have to flee to the backyard, perhaps hop a fence. Interestingly, these dreams stopped after I became an interior designer. But Hilary allows me to take a long look at the titles on someone's bookshelves!
I am also drawn to street scenes and hers are marvelous. An abundance of details and signs make them worthy of study. There is something of the "outsider"/naïve style in her art, a bit of charming self-taught homeyness, like the art of Howard Finster...
https://www.instagram.com/hilary_pecis/
For years, I had dreams where I would enter someone's home at night while they slept, simply because I wanted to see their "things," how they lived, what they collected. Invariably though, they would begin to wake up and it would dawn on me how this would look to the homeowner. I meant no malice and I was honestly not there to steal or to harm. But how would they know that? So in the dream, I would have to flee to the backyard, perhaps hop a fence. Interestingly, these dreams stopped after I became an interior designer. But Hilary allows me to take a long look at the titles on someone's bookshelves!
I am also drawn to street scenes and hers are marvelous. An abundance of details and signs make them worthy of study. There is something of the "outsider"/naïve style in her art, a bit of charming self-taught homeyness, like the art of Howard Finster...
https://www.instagram.com/hilary_pecis/
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Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Just finished reading...
...DEATH'S EXCELLENT VACATION edited by Charlaine Harris and Toni L.P. Kelner.
This collection of supernatural short stories based upon the theme of holidays and vacations is one of a series compiled and edited by Charlaine Harris (the Sookie Stackhouse series) and Toni LP Kelner. The other collections of short stories are based around themes such as Christmas and birthdays.
The collection opens with a short story featuring Sookie Stackhouse, the telepathic/ fairy heroine from Harris’ most famous series and inspiration for Alan Ball’s “True Blood” on HBO. It’s a fun little romp, and thankfully a stand-alone piece that will not have any bearing on the main Stackhouse story line. And a good thing too, because Harris makes Sookie do some, well, un-Sookie-like things.
Unfortunately, things go a bit downhill from there. The remaining stories, featuring a variety of werewolves, vampires, ghosts and soul-suckers, runs tepid to cold. Some rally a little more than others, but at best they feel like episodes of Rod Serling’s “Night Gallery.” I really do like Harris’ Sookie Stackhouse series, but this isn’t it.
Recommend? Nah… skip it.
This collection of supernatural short stories based upon the theme of holidays and vacations is one of a series compiled and edited by Charlaine Harris (the Sookie Stackhouse series) and Toni LP Kelner. The other collections of short stories are based around themes such as Christmas and birthdays.The collection opens with a short story featuring Sookie Stackhouse, the telepathic/ fairy heroine from Harris’ most famous series and inspiration for Alan Ball’s “True Blood” on HBO. It’s a fun little romp, and thankfully a stand-alone piece that will not have any bearing on the main Stackhouse story line. And a good thing too, because Harris makes Sookie do some, well, un-Sookie-like things.
Unfortunately, things go a bit downhill from there. The remaining stories, featuring a variety of werewolves, vampires, ghosts and soul-suckers, runs tepid to cold. Some rally a little more than others, but at best they feel like episodes of Rod Serling’s “Night Gallery.” I really do like Harris’ Sookie Stackhouse series, but this isn’t it.
Recommend? Nah… skip it.
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