Rediscovering the Landscape
This post is written by Latitude 53’s Writer In Residence, Carolyn Jervis. She will be writing critically about Latitude 53 programming, the community and more on a regular basis over a six month term. Read more about the Writer In Residence program.
The other day my grandmother revealed to me how little I have learned about reading people’s artistic preferences when she visited me at my commercial gallery job. I figured that a well-dressed octogenarian with a predilection for sumptuous floral prints and afternoons spent in the garden amongst her flowers would love the delicate, elegant watercolour lily or the bombastic pinks in an electric garden on canvas.
She kept saying to me, “Carolyn, I want something restful.”
I showed her about a dozen images pulled from the back rooms before she verbalized what she really wanted in a way that I could understand:
“I want a scene.”
As she described her desire to sit in her sunroom and gaze at a space that she could travel through on the wings of her imagination, I came to realize that she wanted to buy art in preparation for her increasingly sedentary life.
