The Desecularization of Chez Kasia OK, so Chez Ka…
admin January 24th, 2007
The Desecularization of Chez Kasia
OK, so Chez Kasia in and of itself isn’t secular or religious – it’s just a set of walls with a floor and a ceiling. However, when I bought Chez Kasia last summer, my parents and sister very generously came over and painted (which was even more appreciated because of the heinous decorating taste of a previous occupant). After painting, my stepmother (bless her) felt that my walls looked too bare, so she brought over a whole bunch of pictures and decorations that didn’t work in her new home.
This was up in my hallway until yesterday:
It’s nice, though probably not something I would have bought. And it looked very nice in that spot. However, I picked up my newly mounted, matted and framed Immaculate Conception from the frame shop yesterday (I realized I do not have the requisite skills to do it myself more cheaply), and put it up in the same spot. Take a look:
Not bad. I do need to drive the nail a little further in, because the nature of the first piece (what do I call it? a bough-heart?) required that a good bit of nail be exposed, but I didn’t want to pull out the hammer at 10 p.m. (I’m sure my neighbor appreciates that, especially since I’m sure that he can hear the pitter patter of feline feet all day and all night on my hardwood floors.)
Oh – and if you can’t see the pic well enough (it’s just taken with my cell phone camera), this is the original Velazquez piece:
C’est belle, n’est-ce pas?
