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featherynscale) wrote2007-01-26 11:40 am
featherynscale) wrote2007-01-26 11:40 am
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Consulting the VURD: Office Art
When I got this job, the office was "decorated" with little Jesus things, the Footprints thing, "A Special Prayer For The Parents Of Handicapped Children", and similar dreck, which all went away as soon as I moved in. (Well, almost all. Someone had taped a Bible verse to the inside of the desk cubby, which reads "Therefore encourage each other, and build up each other, as indeed you are doing", and which is apparently from the epistle to the Thessalonians. Out of context like that, I think it's fine advice for people of any faith, so it stayed. But the rest of it? Gone!)
And since I moved in, the office has been pretty sparse, except for the flat surfaces, which are covered in paperwork. The walls are a crappy sort of putty color. I had intended to paint over that, but due to a miscommunication about when the carpet was coming in, that didn't happen. It's probably just as well, because the sage green color I had chosen to go on the walls would have been really awful with the navy blue baseboards they put in without telling us about. Of course, they look pretty bad with the putty color, too, but I digress.
The point is, my office needs a little love of the artistic variety. I'd like to buy some prints to hang about. I'm sort of at a sticking point, though, because the sort of thing that I like (which tends to include weapons, nudity, wierd machinery, wierd machinery fused to more-or-less human bodies, monsters, robots, and deities of cultures I don't technically belong to) is not the sort of thing that will go over well at the office. (When you come right down to it anyway, I'm not much for art. The one "piece of art" that I have ever actually owned is a colored pencil and perhaps watercolor of a little red-haired angel with gears and struts in her wings.) And I'd really rather not own the sorts of pictures of cats, flowers, serene seaside scenes, sailboats, and little children kissing that seem to be in vogue in office art.
So, surely, some of you lot are more up on art than my humble self. Can anyone point me to an artist who makes things that are office-acceptable and yet still interesting? Or a site that sells prints of same?
EDIT: I could probably get away with something like this, don't you think?
And since I moved in, the office has been pretty sparse, except for the flat surfaces, which are covered in paperwork. The walls are a crappy sort of putty color. I had intended to paint over that, but due to a miscommunication about when the carpet was coming in, that didn't happen. It's probably just as well, because the sage green color I had chosen to go on the walls would have been really awful with the navy blue baseboards they put in without telling us about. Of course, they look pretty bad with the putty color, too, but I digress.
The point is, my office needs a little love of the artistic variety. I'd like to buy some prints to hang about. I'm sort of at a sticking point, though, because the sort of thing that I like (which tends to include weapons, nudity, wierd machinery, wierd machinery fused to more-or-less human bodies, monsters, robots, and deities of cultures I don't technically belong to) is not the sort of thing that will go over well at the office. (When you come right down to it anyway, I'm not much for art. The one "piece of art" that I have ever actually owned is a colored pencil and perhaps watercolor of a little red-haired angel with gears and struts in her wings.) And I'd really rather not own the sorts of pictures of cats, flowers, serene seaside scenes, sailboats, and little children kissing that seem to be in vogue in office art.
So, surely, some of you lot are more up on art than my humble self. Can anyone point me to an artist who makes things that are office-acceptable and yet still interesting? Or a site that sells prints of same?
EDIT: I could probably get away with something like this, don't you think?