January 10th, 2007

Virginia

Posted by Breid in Artwork

Virginia.jpg

While visiting Mum in Saskatchwan, my favourite activity is going into the abandoned farmhouses. Granted, I take some care when doing this; I don’t go up broken stairs, or move stuff around, I just go in as far as I think safe, and imagine what the house once looked like. Sometimes it can be a little freaky (I swear you can hear the walls talking at times) but mostly I feel sad for the house itself. I picture how it once saw children born and people die, it helped feed and heal, it heard laughter and saw tears, and now vacant, it’s left alone and unwanted.

I also wonder why it was left behind. Was it because something horrible happened? Or maybe after the parents died the children just left the homestead to rot? Perhaps the family won the lottery and moved into a mansion somewhere. More than likely, the cost of running a farm just got too high for them and they were forced to leave.

Regardless, I still enjoy looking at these broken-down homes. I find them absolutely beautiful.

“Virginia”
Egg Tempera
6.25 x 12″

“House Where Nobody Lives” -Tom Waits

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  1. Virginia said,
    on January 10th, 2007 at 6:32 pm

    Of course you know I have to have this painting now. And of course you have probably done it for down south so I can’t have it.
    Waaaaahhhhh!
    Fellow house lover me, liberal use of my favourite aqua colour, and the wonderfully gorgeous beautiful stunning little girl on the door who looks somehow familiar.
    Bravo, Bon. I love it!

  2. Amanda Button said,
    on January 11th, 2007 at 9:01 am

    Beautiful!!! And somehow…haunted. What an amazing painting
    My the countryside around my hometown is full of houses like that…little abandoned farmhouses, usually covered with kudzu!

  3. Luc said,
    on January 12th, 2007 at 12:21 pm

    Holy crap! I LOVE this painting Bonni! Beautiful!! Wow.. just wonderful.. it’s mesmerising.. Seriously, it’s pulling me right in. Love it.

  4. Breid said,
    on January 12th, 2007 at 2:35 pm

    WOW! Thanks guys!

    Who knows Gin, maybe “down south” won’t accept it.

    Strangely, I didn’t even think about the aqua colour too! Of course!

  5. Exhibit B » “1/4″ Hex. Screw and Washer” said,
    on January 30th, 2007 at 9:13 pm

    [...] My other exciting news is that I’ll have three paintings in the “Everything But the Kitschen Sync” group show at the La Luz de Jesus Gallery in LA! The three paintings accepted are: “Virginia”, “Dead of Night” and this one. [...]

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