Halloween Frame TV art from a single painting: a friendly sheet ghost sitting on a porch swing on an old Victorian porch at night, 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 through a long October evening.
The ghost has taken the swing for the night. A tartan blanket hangs over the seat beside it, a black cat sits on the boards at its feet, and four carved jack-o'-lanterns grin from the corners of the porch while autumn leaves blow across the floor. The porch is an old Victorian one, all carved trim and turned railings, and the garden beyond it has gone dark.
The light is the whole picture. One lantern hangs from the porch beam and the jack-o'-lanterns glow from inside; everything else is painted in what they throw — the white of the sheet, the red of the tartan, the gold of the old wood — while the edges settle into deep, warm dark. It is a little eerie and entirely friendly: nothing here is meant to frighten anyone.
It is one image all the way through: no slideshow, no transitions, no zoom. What moves is the light. A soft pool of warm lamplight drifts slowly across the painting over the six hours, so the glow is never in quite the same place twice — too slow to notice from one minute to the next, the way light shifts on a porch as the evening goes on.
It is made for the last weeks before Halloween.
