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There were undoubtedly technical reasons why some art is considered good, and why some art is bad. Someone more knowledgeable than she would be able to say just why. It wasn’t a “nice” picture by any means, but clearly it was good. “Yes, but-” Lydia started to say she liked it, but wasn’t sure she’d be telling the truth. “It’s quite grotesque, isn’t it?” Amanda said. The image looked vaguely familiar, as if she had seen it somewhere before. A black bird, one that was dead or in the throes of dying. The style was vaguely impressionist in scope, some swirls of undefined black and gray, but at the center, the twisted shape of a bird’s head. It was nothing like the pretty landscapes Amanda had painted back in New York. Lydia, the main character, has encouraged her sister-in-law, Amanda, to take up painting again and in this scene, Amanda is showing it to Lydia. So I switched to a bird too, albeit, a dark, gloomy, scary one.Īnyway, this painting plays a part in my perpetually ongoing novel.
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(Thomas Hood was one of those people, I can't remember who else.). Last year someone on Booktalk pointed out that several people on one of the discussion threads were using birds as their avatar. I started using this as my avatar as a lark. This segment here opens with the bird painting. I never did finish the game which doesn't even work on modern Macs, although I just discovered right now that you can see the game in its entirety on YouTube. I liked the bird painting enough that at one point I did a screen snapshot and saved it to my hard drive. The game was very spooky and really captured a dark mood of foreboding. If I recall, one of the characters, an old man who is mad, spends much of his time painting and this bird is one of those paintings. It was a point and click game, like Myst, and centered around several Edgar Poe stories, including the Cask of Amontillado and the Masque of Red Death. That's actually an image from a computer game called The Dark Eye.
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Suzanne wrote:Geo, I've wanted to ask for a long time, what is your avatar?