Right Down the Line Painting

Landline Isn’t language an odd thing? Since the growth of the internet, our language and lives have changed exponentially. Webster has added a host of words associated with new technology while sloughing off the old. It’s a full time job to keep up. Take the word landline, for instance. My first recollection of that word was in the early 2000s, when people started to abandon their home phones. The flip side of that dictionary coin is the clothesline. We didn’t have an automatic clothes dryer until my high school years, so the clothesline ruled. With the invention of the dryer, no more need for that type of landline. Thank goodness! Sometimes I think life used to be more simple, until I really think about the challenges those “landlines” held. Hanging laundry in the winter was not fun and if it rained the clothes froze! Without a cell phone, people were relegated to pay phones, if they could find one. And let’s not forget, before the introduction of the dryer and the pager, folks were using a rock by a stream and smoke signals. We’ve come a long way baby. These pieces of art take me back to the sanguine days of my childhood. The smell of sun soaked sheets blowing in a southern breeze, and the quest to find a payphone to answer the ever present 911 page, Who needs a landline any way? They are so twentieth century. But those memories sure do leave me satisfied.

Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:18 W x 14 H x 0.3 D in

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