Landing I

I’m kinda hoping to make a small series of these stairway landing hauntings. Stairs in old dwellings can suggest all sorts of stories when there’s a restless spirit occupying them.

There’s also a lot to like about stairs and what you can do, compositionally, with a nice flight of decaying, winding steps. I don’t even mean in an MC Escher kind of way. Look at ol’ Frank Miller:

One thing I’ve been learning about these oval pieces is it doesn’t make sense to create prints from them. They look great in a vintage oval frame, but not everyone is going to buy one just to put your print into it. I’d pretty much have to sell them framed which means cutting them out myself and that’s so much work.

I had good results using AI to fill in the corners and make this particular piece a rectangle, so maybe prints are an option for this one.

When you’re flexing your creative muscles, it’s good to throw down personal challenges just to see where they go. In naming this “Landing I”, I secretly entered a contract with myself to do, at a minimum, II and III. I just won’t be doing them as ovals.

J was enamored with this one, so it belongs to her now.