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Dayton, WA
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Title
Phonograph Days
Artist
Steve Henderson
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
Hearkening back to simpler days, a young woman listens to music on a vintage record player.
Technology is an amazing thing ā not because we need more and more of it, but because, in every era and every age (all of which considered themselves āmodernā), we have difficulty imagining a time or a place as advanced as where we are now.
In the artwork, Phonograph Days, the young woman exists in a vintage nostalgic era of the 1930s ā her hat, her dress, her surroundings are from a time a place far away and long ago from now, but we as the viewer can join her as she does two timeless things: she delights in using the technology of her day, and she listens to and enjoys music.
Some things, technology aside, are timeless, and wise are we when we recognize this. Leisure time, a space for thinking, quiet reflection after a busy day ā these are things that all humans need, and in our presently modern age of the 21st century, we are in danger of being so busy that we neglect to take the time we need to refresh our minds and spirit.
Itās not as if we donāt have the technology to find and listen to music: indeed, our options today are far greater than the options of the woman in Phonograph Days. What we lack is the willingness, or the mental āpermission,ā to step away from the busyness, to set aside time for ādoing nothing,ā and to do so without guilt, without self admonition, without mentally punishing ourselves for being lazy.
Life is not meant to be lived in a constant state of working, meeting deadlines, brainstorming, and production. Sometimes ā far more often than we allow ourselves for ā we need time to snap our fingers to the music, sway in time to the beat, and take time out to relax and refresh.
(Phonograph Days takes place in the music room of the Boldman House Museum in Dayton, WA.)
Featured on 26 Fine Art America groups.
Selected as the group avatar for Music CD Cover Designs, August 2019.
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April 14th, 2017
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Independence, KS - United States
BRAVO! Your artwork has earned a FEATURE on the homepage of The Artists Group, 10/23/2021! You may also post it in the Group's Features discussion thread and any other thread that fits!
Seattle, Wa - United States
Congratulations, your excellent art was featured in the āPacific Northwest Artistsā Group. For permanence, please place your featured work in the āDiscussionā section: featured in 2021.
Bensalem, PA - United States
Congratulations Steve your beautiful artwork is being featured in The World We See:-) Please take a moment to add your wonderful art to our archives in the message area and have a fantastic day!
Middletown, PA - United States
Beautiful work, Steve!!! Congratulations, your work is Featured in "Your Best Work"! I invite you to place it in the group's "Featured Image Archive" Discussion!!
Cypress, TX - United States
I love this painting, the face expression is so interesting and with the old Phonogram. L/F
LABRUYERE-DORSA, FR - France
Fantastic painting Steve! Congratulations for your special feature in "Exclusively Drawings and Paintings"!
Bracebridge, ON - Canada
We had one of these at our cottage when I was a kid - sure brings back memories! Nice work!
Pacific Northwest - United States
Congratulations Steve, your outstanding artwork has been featured on the leading page of Impressionism group! Please take a moment to visit the group and view it there as it has been carefully arranged and displayed on our gallery wall. Also, feel free to add it to the featured art archive in the groupās discussions as well. Excellent work! Lori
Niceville, Fl - United States
As usual, I love this painting of yours, Steve! Voted your entry in the Retro contest! LF
Toronto, ON - Canada
Congrats on your image of the day for 'Music CD Cover Designs'. This is delightful work.
Perth, We - Australia
Congratulation šSteveš to be chosen as the Well Deserved and Undisputed Group Avatar! š
Weipa, Qu - Australia
Congratulations, Steve on your selector for the Music CD Cover Designs new group Avatar :)
New Orleans, LA - United States
Congratulations, congratulations, congratulations Steve!!! Your sensational, masterful and superior painting composition titled "Photograph Days" has been featured on the group home page Music Cd Cover Designs!!! This extraordinary composition has also been featured on the group home page, administrator selected as a photo of the day and group administrator selected as the new group Avatar!!!!! Best of success with this magnificent composition!!!! Cheers, Group Administrator Michael Hoard
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