Window, Pink House
With a whole house actually painted this color, I thought it best to introduce it in small quantities, from a safe distance, through a window. With a shade. Don't look directly at it, and don't look too long. This is a preview. There will be more.
posted by Mark Anderson at 6:47 AM
3 Comments:
Normally I don't like pink houses, but this one is different. It looks rather out of place here, as though it belongs to a much earlier era. Only 60 years ago there were potato farms here. I surveyed an old potato farm (19th century)on Eastern Long Island for prehistoric sites and was impressed
be the architecture of the house which was modest, low-to-the-ground and in harmony with it's natural surroundings. There was a "front porch" which consisted of wooden planks raised only slightly above the ground. The rooms were small and almost spartan in their simplicity. It was a very inviting space. These old houses are vastly different from the sprawling constructions going up around us now.
Yesterday I saw an elderly woman buy a large roll of cloth in a hot pink color. It was so shockingly pink that I could not look at it for more than 20 nano-seconds. Your pink house probably has the same effect. If you are going to continue drawing the pink house, do it in pieces like you wrote, otherwise my TFT computer screen might lose some LEDs.
I think I would have loved it here 60 years ago when it was more rural and wild. But, I think you're right about the house. When I do put up a drawing of the whole house you'll see that it really is an untouched (not updated or improved) example of the original Levittown house. Somehow, the pink color doesn't look wrong to me.
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