While I was looking for something else (the 2nd version of my car keys mouse—which had a really beautiful dichro vessel that I evidently never got around to photographing before it broke) I found this set of images from last year. —I'd had this chair for years, sanded by my long-suffering elder offspring but didn't actually get around to painting it till pretty recently.

Chair and box. Mostly latex housepaint, but the fuchsia streaks are courtesy of my artists’ acrylics, as that saturated a colour isn't available from the local paint store. The chair at least is sealed with a clear coat.

Since I didn't make the post right away, I'm not certain, at this point, how much time elapsed between painting and photographing, but I'd guess at the very least that both were done the same year;)

This isn't the first time I've done this sort of thing—here's the chest of drawers^[1] I keep many of lampworking tools in, and of course the studio itself is rife with it.

bit more of a closeup showing the box, 20161118E620. (That is, taken with the olympus, and, obviously, the lensbaby.) Click on either image for full-size—say if you want a closer look at the little box.^[2]

The snarky title results from the fact that if I did this sort of abstract painting on canvas, it would be art. But since I put it only lowly functional wood items, it's merely craft. I'm happy to report this sort of divide doesn't extend everywhere—one of the reasons I love Japan is its cultural emphasis on making the functional beautiful, without the artificial separation between craft and art, medium and idea.

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