A COUPLE OF CELINGS Painting

These two ceilings are what we can see, raising the head, in the living room of our house. The first is the real ceiling, the one who holds the roof: it’s a structure made in laminated wooden beams and panels, painted with an ivory enamel, that yellow a little bit over time. But the living room is double-height, that allowed the construction of a loft, which is my studio, from more than twenty years. This one is the second ceiling. So that do not remove brightness from the lower area of the living room, I did make it into concrete-glass tiles, which constitute the ground on which I walk, when I get up to paint. You get there by a steep sailor staircase, made by red iron, flowing along a curved track, which allows, as well as the access to the loft, also the climb to the upper part of the full-height bookcase, to take the books in the last shelves. It’s a panorama I see every day and for many hours, that’s the reason why I’m fond of it. So much, that I had put two sculptures that I would like to have: of the great artist that Alexander Calder was. Not for nothing, it’s said that yellow is the colour that crazy people love.