Harvest Still Life

Halloween & Autumn · 16 paintings · 2 hours

Harvest still life
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Autumn Frame TV art for the weeks before Thanksgiving: sixteen original harvest still lifes in 4K, seven and a half minutes each. Two hours of fall TV art with no music and no narration, made to leave running as a screensaver on a Samsung Frame TV or any 4K screen.

This collection is set in daylight rather than candlelight: late afternoon sun coming in from one side, long soft shadows across a waxed oak table, and two candles standing unlit at either end because nothing needs lighting at four in the afternoon. It changes everything about how the colour behaves — wheat gold and copper go warm and bright in sunlight where they would go amber by candle.

The other decision worth explaining is that there is no food on the table. A harvest collection without food is an odd constraint, and I kept it on purpose: these are the decorations, not the dinner. Wheat sheaves, dried hydrangea, grasses and seed heads, gourds, pinecones, copper and pewter. Nothing on this table is meant to be eaten, which is also what makes it work as something to leave running on a screen rather than something that makes you hungry.

It is built to sit on a wall from late October through Thanksgiving — fall Frame TV art for the long run of the season, rather than for one night.

The 16 paintings

  1. A Sheaf of Wheat and Dried Hydrangea
  2. Cream and Pale Green Gourds in a Basket
  3. Dried Grasses and Copper Leaves, Full Width
  4. A Copper Urn of Hydrangea in Three Shades
  5. Linen Parcels Tied with Jute
  6. Pewter Jugs of Wheat and Seed Heads
  7. A Wreath of Wheat and Oak Leaves
  8. A Low Run of Foliage and Cream Gourds
  9. Reeds and Cattails Above Pale Gourds
  10. Gourds and Pinecones Heaped in a Woven Tray
  11. Two Tall Candles Over Dried Foliage
  12. The Open Crate of Grasses and Pinecones
  13. Hydrangea, Eucalyptus and Wheat in Stone
  14. Small White Gourds and Trailing Vine
  15. Linen Ribbon and Copper Leaves on Bare Oak
  16. The Table Dressed End to End

How to watch on your TV

No Frame TV needed. Open the YouTube app on any smart TV (Samsung including The Frame, LG, Sony, TCL, Roku, Fire TV, Chromecast), find this collection on the Quiet Frame TV channel, press play and go full screen. It runs for hours in silence, so you can leave it on as wall art. More on watching

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