Wow, how can you live like that?

I spend a lot of my time painting, being totally involved in my own world, in my studio. When I don’t have a commission or an exhibition to work towards, I create my own commissions for myself & when I get back into my home my walls, all of my walls, have something on them, whether it’s a print or a photograph, a drawing, a calendar, one of my paintings or someone else’s paintings and quite often I move them around to keep things interesting.

So when I go into someone’s house & they literally have nothing on their walls other than a tv screen, I find it really hard to comprehend.

If I go to a public place, a cafe or restaurant & there’s no art, I’m disappointed, a bit bored actually, even bad art is better than no art for me.

I just genuinely wonder, how do they live like that? I don’t think it’s wrong, I’m not judging or condemning. I’m just baffled.

I seem to fundamentally need non-digital visuals to trigger my imagination & endorphins when I’m at rest. I listen to the radio much more than I used to & look at screens for as little time as is humanly possible in this day & age.

I’m always really interested by what people put on their walls in the same way I’m interested in what books they have on their shelves or their opinions on things. These choices are what makes us who we are & our differences & interests enrich us & others lives. As long as you’re not hurting anyone there really is no right or wrong in those decisions but to live somewhere year after year with bare walls…..even the cave people couldn’t stand that.

Is it because you can’t decide or is it because you can’t agree? Or is it ….just because you don’t want anything on your walls?

( I wanted to add an image, it feels wrong not to 🙂 so here’s one I made earlier, it’s on the floor not the wall but I love the way the sun is dappling it. )

I’d love you to tell me what if anything is on your wall as you read this. Do you feel connected to it in any way?

And if there is nothing there, is that a conscious decision? Do you think maybe I should try it?

xx