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(DIR) Post #B0heUMZ7DKDw7tozjc by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-28T11:39:13Z
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If you have a lot of art: paintings, drawings etc. HOW do you enjoy them?For a long time I couldn't afford much art. So I always framed it right away and hung it up. But, the walls are a little crowded now. Considering a system where I rotate the art every half year? Seasonally? I would also have a designated closet spot for art that isn't hanging.Anyone do this?If you must know, yes it's almost all ants. But you knew that part. #interiordesign #art #interiorDecor
(DIR) Post #B0hegBRKP8Wx60ocrY by Ailbhe@mendeddrum.org
2025-11-28T11:41:19Z
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@futurebird oh that's a good idea. I will consider.
(DIR) Post #B0hegiJKBujj2kKCTA by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-28T11:41:22Z
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I worry that storing framed art in a closet might make it grow dusty. Maybe I could put it in a bag? Also remember today is "buy nothing" day but buying art directly from the artist doesn't count.
(DIR) Post #B0herKRZGiIoCrF4fg by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-28T11:43:18Z
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@neckspike That's so cool. But how do you have so many things that can fit in the same frame? Or do you hang them some other way?Too much of my stuff is different sizes and I know I'm too lazy to reframe just to change the art. But, I think just swapping framed work is within my tolerances. :)
(DIR) Post #B0hfNJQkZSucKZ6vCq by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-28T11:49:08Z
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Putting everything I own on the wall at once was based on thinking that I couldn't keep art that wasn't on the wall. Like I wouldn't get to see it ever again. I love all of these drawings, photos, and prints of ants. But, if I have a system it will feel OK to put them away. Feeling very fancy to have reached a stage in life where I have an "art collection." š§ (And I should label the back of the art, it will make it more likely for someone else to keep it in the future.)
(DIR) Post #B0hfYGC0wtZhTURF0S by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-28T11:51:04Z
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@denny Since they are framed I'm not worried about acid. And they won't be in the closet for years... just trying to minimize dust. I think I have a big cardboard box that could work. I don't know why I find this stuff so complex, but planning out the details helps.
(DIR) Post #B0hfaIAcZFKMBekuKO by GustavinoBevilacqua@mastodon.cisti.org
2025-11-28T11:51:30Z
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@futurebird Uhmā¦ maybe those bags for blankets, with a valve to suck out air with a vacuum cleaner, could be a solution to evaluate.
(DIR) Post #B0hgvxv4djVfhnNkMy by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-28T12:06:37Z
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This is a good idea for any kind of collection. I also have a lot of models and small sculptures of ants. Once I do the art I think I will look for a nice box to keep them in and have some kind of seasonal ant-rotation going on. I think if someone else suggested this to me I'd reject it as too much work. And "I want to see everything at once" ... but, I think if I can keep it simple it will let both of us notice the art more and it won't just fade into the background.
(DIR) Post #B0hhO9R3Py7zWsmSGG by jmax@mastodon.social
2025-11-28T12:11:39Z
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@futurebird Ooh. Could you sync the rotation to the actually active species at each time of year?
(DIR) Post #B0hhOyeczGHyNkWW00 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-28T12:11:51Z
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I've read a lot of interior design advice about how to display framed art. How to hang it at the right height, size, how it fits in the room. Good stuff.The popular advice even suggests "get art that you care about, avoid mass produced generic prints" but *none* of that advice says anything about managing a modest "collection" they all talk about art like its disposable and as if you'd get rid of art you aren't using. (like it's some generic mass produced print š )
(DIR) Post #B0hhfV7Q3LlJhZry2i by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-28T12:14:52Z
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I'm certain the concept of changing art seasonally is obvious to some of you. But it was not obvious to me. It is a thing in very traditional Japanese interiors to have a seasonal alcove with plants and art that you change and enough space around them to really enjoy them. But, that seemed way too advanced and minimalist for me. But I'm also tired of the Victorian picture wall look. Nothing has enough space to really shine.
(DIR) Post #B0hhwUjmiv7pRUuyXI by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-28T12:17:56Z
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On the other extreme you have advice about "serious art collections" where people have paintings worth thousands of dollars. Some of my art is worth thousands of dollars TO ME. Just because no one has caught on yet that drawings of ants are the highest art form, well it's not my problem and it means I can afford the best art. :)
(DIR) Post #B0hibrUv0SJNuAgoyW by Ailbhe@mendeddrum.org
2025-11-28T12:25:23Z
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@futurebird but what if I like my mass produced generic print
(DIR) Post #B0higHb5uW3e0fgcds by jws@infosec.exchange
2025-11-28T12:26:11Z
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@futurebird I have a giant plastic tote full of things that don't fit the walls. They get rotated in. The Wall behind my desk has probably 20 pieces, mostly small, all by artists from my hometown. It's something to chat about when video meetings are trickling in
(DIR) Post #B0hiurBqNH06S8pDn6 by katzenberger@tldr.nettime.org
2025-11-28T12:28:49Z
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@futurebird While humans tend to sort according to "content" or "meaning", I'd maintain exactly as many stacks as I have nails in the wall, and to have similarly-sized art on every individual stack.Every piece of art needs a corresponding, free space to "breathe", which is why I find it is nicer to maintain size-based stacks. It may also suggest which sizes you have neglected, so farā¦On the other hand, it might be fun to have tiny and giant pieces rotate in one spot, over time.
(DIR) Post #B0hj3Mz03MSHNCsQ4m by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-28T12:30:23Z
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@Ailbhe I don't think you'd call it generic? Maybe?
(DIR) Post #B0hjGjk6kC7Vj5HjSS by Limnobotanik@norden.social
2025-11-28T12:32:43Z
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@futurebird our municipal library has an art section where you can loan art for a modest fee. If you like to keep it you can buy the artwork, or you can change it for something else every quarter of the year. I like the idea, I just don't have any space on my walls...
(DIR) Post #B0hjiNXcsiZ4yicxxw by jannem@fosstodon.org
2025-11-28T12:37:46Z
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@futurebird We do this. There's about three good spots for art on our walls. We hang one thing only on each spot, and after a couple of months we replace them with something else. It's great. The thing we hang has the space to shine. And we don't ever have time to get tired of, or too used to any one painting or print.
(DIR) Post #B0hjqQSZuk1YLZ6TsO by adrianh@mastodon.social
2025-11-28T12:39:12Z
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@futurebird Yeah ā we do the swapping-things-around-every-so-often dance. More the stupid number of small sculpture/glass/ceramics we have than pictures.
(DIR) Post #B0hkAQJaABc9gkQo0e by arratoon@beige.party
2025-11-28T12:42:49Z
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@futurebird I know we were talking about IKEA the other day but they do picture ledges. We have two joined together along a wall and it means you can swap out pictures, and move them around when the mood hits. I only have one artwork on the wall, and the rest are leaning against the walls on the floors, which means, again, they can be moved about. https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/cat/picture-ledges-16305/
(DIR) Post #B0hlbzxHrRrzzwiQLY by Ailbhe@mendeddrum.org
2025-11-28T12:57:21Z
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@futurebird I might not but others might!
(DIR) Post #B0hlc1JIp54gCW1WIi by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-28T12:59:02Z
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@Ailbhe Well then it's not generic maybe?What is it? That "Chat" poster with the black cat? If so that is understandable.
(DIR) Post #B0hn2gOgmkbX73owN6 by MCDuncanLab@mstdn.social
2025-11-28T13:15:00Z
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@futurebird Also keep some sort of record of the art you own, for insurance, for you if you get to a point where you have to start getting rid of it (moving, buying too much new art) and for your estate.I so dread taking care of my father and stepmotherās estate that have so much art in various forms some of it is merely decorative, some of it is artists they took a chance on and who knows, and some of it is quite expensive.
(DIR) Post #B0hnElmKbTYhHHdti4 by Ailbhe@mendeddrum.org
2025-11-28T13:17:11Z
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@futurebird A Rothko print from a supermarket
(DIR) Post #B0hoeJNWuswUgDmjeC by MCDuncanLab@mstdn.social
2025-11-28T13:21:41Z
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@futurebird Itās āfunā being the responsible kid Iām executer for both parents.Moms already divesting of things she doesnāt need and has provided me we exactly how to deal with her wood shop (sibs dibs, then extended family, then her woodworking club will help with selling off what is sellable and identifying trash. Some raw wood she has is worth $$$ but others is just practice junk.
(DIR) Post #B0hoeLK3glM0i2AzVw by MCDuncanLab@mstdn.social
2025-11-28T13:22:53Z
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@futurebird Need to talk to Dad about whether they have a catalog of items. If not, I know my task the next visit!
(DIR) Post #B0hoeMDiLpsDUeDRGS by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-28T13:33:03Z
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@MCDuncanLab One of my uncles is an artist, not famous one, but he's made MANY huge oil and acrylic paintings. Landscapes of Pittsburgh and the steel mills a portrait of my grandparents. I've been trying to get the information about what each artwork is, when it was made on the back ... because it's good work, and someday I will not remember.
(DIR) Post #B0hpN6EKeGd6vrq6M4 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-28T13:41:11Z
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@MCDuncanLab Like most artists he just has paintings ... laying around. It is very annoying in a way.
(DIR) Post #B0hpdG7ZdqawF4Nqvw by starluna@mastodon.social
2025-11-28T13:44:01Z
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@futurebird You might consider lending your art to a local community-based organization or library. Many collectors lend their pieces to local museums, but I am pretty sure there's community-based organizations or arts-focused organizations that wouldn't mind hosting your pieces.
(DIR) Post #B0hsouB9LeZFWiIjmy by paulc@mstdn.social
2025-11-28T14:19:43Z
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@futurebird I don't know how much you should pay attention to serious art collectors. For the wealthy hanging art is a way of showing off their wealth. In pre-photography days much of their art was of their own property, so even more about showing off their wealth. Even paintings of their painting collections. The paintings were often hanged filling up a wall.I remember this from John Berger's Ways of Seeing. I can't find my copy right now but it is on the web. https://www.ways-of-seeing.com/ch1
(DIR) Post #B0htvW6dLgbiqauCLw by epicdemiologist@wandering.shop
2025-11-28T14:32:11Z
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@futurebird An art school might have advice on this (I suggest art school vs. museum b/c the solution's less likely to be super expensive).
(DIR) Post #B0i0DfjesvVJeMCPxI by raika_amaris@mastodon.social
2025-11-28T15:42:42Z
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@futurebird Not me, personally, but I've seen a video of someone installing a fancy curtain rod on their wall and hanging the artworks from the rod, with fishing line, I think, at various heights for an easily changeable gallery wall.
(DIR) Post #B0i1eQMCGlWVjAXstU by jhaas@a2mi.social
2025-11-28T15:58:46Z
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@futurebird For smaller pieces of art, the picture rails from IKEA shown elsewhere in thread is what some of my friends do. I've had two friends over the years solve the large art piece problem in a very old-fashioned way: picture rails. Rather than constantly having to fuss with holes in the wall to hang larger pieces, you simply tweak the cables hanging the art to the right height.
(DIR) Post #B0ipjCcFmU7cGaWn44 by OWOP@mastodon.world
2025-11-29T01:19:51Z
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@futurebird It is with the eyes of a child that you will know the most that the moment can show you.*We change the wall art and some furniture each spring and fall in the city house because the light coming from the windows in each room changes and also because the seasonal use changes. Also when we trade for new works to display and need to make a place for them. Having a basement to store things makes it possible plus we love the long battles to decide what will go where.Peace
(DIR) Post #B0jedmX6QQGpaNI77I by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-29T10:50:21Z
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@mikemccaffrey This is the "book situation" around here not there with the art... yet...
(DIR) Post #B0jpRCF4cund3K3lDM by dphiffer@social.coop
2025-11-29T12:51:17Z
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@futurebird as someone whose wife is a working artist, thank you for your service. I am under the impression that collecting enthusiastically like this is vanishingly rare.Boring advice: Investing in flat files for works on paper, renting climate controlled storage for paintings & sculpture.Even better: lending your works out to arts orgs, showing your collection in exhibitions, and treating it like a cohesive entity with a website and with proper metadata.
(DIR) Post #B0kcDRJofgavVlLd32 by pdkoenig@mstdn.social
2025-11-29T21:57:52Z
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@futurebird Are you able to put up picture rails near the ceiling so you can then hang pictures from wires and swap easily?
(DIR) Post #B0kcnRsk3QkNgQr2Mi by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-29T22:04:25Z
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@pdkoenig I mean... we own the place so we could, but I was just going to Spackle and put up hooks as always.
(DIR) Post #B0kcqxB09tI5bu4BSC by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-29T22:05:00Z
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@pdkoenig I don't think we have enough walls for this to make any sense.