I find that all of the houses (and dorms) which were my home are inappropriate for the display of art. Art is simply too majestic for any of the internally ugly places I have ever lived in, so I will never consider the contingency of placing art in my current habitats. For the sake of this question, I shall create a display room of an imaginary home worthy of visual art. Because this home is imaginary, I might as well make it a fantasy and say that the home is a medieval castle with modern renovations like electrical and plumbing. The castle also has a pipe organ and a Flemish triple-manual pedal harpsichord.
The display room is the front chamber, where the castle’s front entryway is, what may be a “lobby.” In this chamber stand the harpsichord and the twenty rank tracker organ. In this fictional castle, I possess many paintings from Sylvia Ji, five of them being located in the “lobby.” The five paintings are:
Porvida
Native
Purple Crush
Nereid
Wormwood
NOTE: I am not certain if the names of these paintings are absolutely correct.
When one enters the castle, the first thing one sees is the magnificent chamber organ. To the left is the rare harpsichord. If one walks into the chamber and turns back to see the entrance, one will see three of the paintings at the entrance. Hanging above the door one just entered through is Purple Crush. To the left of and slightly above the door is Porvida. To the right of and slightly above the door is Native. It may be appropriate to illuminate the two paintings hanging beside the door for the purpose of allowing their red to glow. This might provide a minute impression of a sunset, where red is prevalent near the horizon and purple floats in the sky with greater altitude.
Hanging on the wall closest to the black and gold painted harpsichord, almost above the instrument, is Wormwood. The black roses with the gold outline tied around the subject’s head are the complement to the harpsichord because the instrument is quintessentially black with thin strips of gold along its edges. I find the green in the painting to be a visual manifestation of the harpsichord’s timbre, for I envisage the instrument’s sound as green. Nereid hangs on the wall opposite of Wormwood. The coolness of this painting is like air conditioning, which would comfort the castle environment in the summer. The coolness is the relaxation experienced while watching someone play some of Johann Sebastian Bach’s organ works.
The paintings displayed here are from http://www.sylviaji.com/.
