Everyday Canvas

My Painting

Prompt: You've been commissioned by your local art gallery to come up with a painting for their next exhibit...but you can only use three colors and it has to be an inanimate, stationary object. What did you come up with and why?

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My painting will have to be a Tiffany floor lamp with gray-brown, blue-green, and bright yellow colors. I could use the bright yellow for the light the lamp emits as well as a highlighter on the glass shade.

I chose this lamp because a lamp lights up what is dark, and a Tiffany lamp itself is a work of art. Globe shapes are reserved for the floor lamps, and even the word globe has its connotations. Lighting up the globe would be a wonderful thought, and thoughts reveal how we make sense of the world and what we do in it and why. It is a matter of value judgment, I suppose.

Then imagining further, a Tiffany lamp is a rare antique like some poets who sit in the gloom of a lamp sighing with a broken heart, while Sara Teasdale writes,

“If I can bear your love like a lamp before me,
When I go down the long steep Road of Darkness,
I shall not fear the everlasting shadows,
Nor cry in terror.”