Sep 242007
I picked up a couple nice pieces at yesterday’s VSA Silent Auction, including a matted and framed black-and-white photograph that goes quite nicely with the color scheme of my living room. I also brought home a porcelain vase that brightens up the dead space beside my sofa. Bets are currently being accepted on how long the vase will survive intact.
I remember hearing local raconteur Kevin Kling read an essay that contained the line “It feels good to buy art.” And it does.
And it feels good to SELL art without taking any gain for yourelf. It’s what I’m doing at the moment, my cousin painter Marcelo Swinnen from Argentina is exposing his new collection and stays with us. A splendid experience.
Today he said: if I myself become more ugly by growing old, this isn’t grave. It’s the paintings that will survive. We are just passengers here.
So true.
Mieke.