Chandelier At Winterthur

by Lois Bryan

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Chandelier At Winterthur

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Lois Bryan

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Digital Art - Photography / Digital Art / Photography Based Digital Hand-painting

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I started life out as an extremely near-sighed little kid. How my parents didn't pick up on that earlier will remain a mystery to me until the day I die, I guess. My dad was constantly holding my face between his hands and pointing me in various directions to "see" something that interested him. The night-sky constellations and my complete inability to see what the heck he was talking about, comes immediately to mind. I think I rather annoyed the poor man, lol.

But in looking back, I can't help thinking my myopia was really a weird blessing in disguise. I have other memories. Of walking out the front door, for example, and being completely mesmerized by the sunlight in the dew on the bright green grass. How is it that no one else saw all those diamonds laying around but me?

Another kid-experience vividly remembered was a visit to an uncle of one of my mom's best friends. Not a clue, at this point, where the heck we were ... Baltimore? Somewhere in DC? Virginia? But his home seemed like a glorious mansion. Walking in the massive front doors into a 2-story foyer was like walking into a castle. And guess what was hanging from that ceiling, way, way up there? An incredible, magical crystal chandelier. And there was a huge window over the front door through which beamed the strongest morning light you can imagine. To my poor-sighted eyes, it was as if a bucket of glittering jewels had decided to get together for a party. I'm pretty sure I spent the first few minutes of the visit struck silent, open-mouthed and pop-eyed.

But I digress. Point being ... I am and always have been one in spirit (if not in talent, lol) with the great impressionist painters ... that is, once I got a bit older and had my vision checked. Those guys really knew how to re-create my glorious, glowing and sparkly little-kid world!!

My little piece here is an example of what that fascination looked like to me. Though this portion of the lighting fixture is not from the home of that long-ago uncle, the chandelier itself is still a work of beautiful artistry. It is hung in glorious Winterthur, once home to the DuPont Family, in Wilmington, Delaware, where it sparkles and catches and throws light and rainbows for all the little girls ... and big ones too ... who happen to pass by and look up.

Lois Bryan

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April 2nd, 2017

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