Christmas Frame TV art from a single painting: a table heaped with Christmas ornaments by candlelight, held on screen for six silent hours in 4K — no music, no narration and no cuts, made to leave running as a screensaver on a Samsung Frame TV or any 4K screen all through the Christmas season.
Painted baubles in deep red, old gold and forest green are piled along a polished table on a gold brocade runner, a few of them white and painted with tiny snowy cottages and fir trees. Red poinsettias, holly with red and white berries, and sprigs of pine are tucked in among them, and four tall ivory candles rise out of the arrangement against a wine-red damask wall patterned in gold.
It has the look of an old decorative oil painting: rich, warm and full, with gold leaf highlights on every ornament, loose brushwork, and the soft glow of candlelight across the wall behind.
It is one image all the way through: no slideshow, no transitions, no zoom. What moves is the light. Each of the four candle flames flickers on its own, their glow breathes on the damask behind them, and a soft warmth drifts slowly across the painting over the six hours — too slow to notice from one minute to the next.
It is made for the whole season: for the living room while the tree goes up, for holiday dinners and parties, and for quiet December evenings.
