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Well, shut my mouth. I'm always telling people their art's hung too high, but this looks really great.

Love it

It does make the ceilings look high (whether they actually are is hard to tell). Not sure I like the look, tho.

over it.

Artist Barry "Twist" McGee does an art installation of untitled drawings very much like this--check it out:

http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/mcgee/card1.html

I like it because it looks like it could keep growing as needed...

I don't really mind the look per se, it's just that I imagine it's a struggle to "properly" view the art. Seems almost disrespectful to turn art into a mere textural element of the home rather then a focal point.

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You know what? It looks pretty cool to me, specially in this setting. Who says we have to follow rules all the time?

I like the idea that it can keep growing as well...

I don't like it at all. It makes me tense to look at it. Move it all down two feet and voy-la.

I like it because that would actually finally give me a way to put ALL of my frames and awesome pictures up. My father is a photographer so i'm always finding great pictures of my family that I never knew existed.

Is stacked pictures aka art the new wall paper?

Don't like it. It's too high, and REALLY jammed together unattractively.

Besides, from what I can see of the artwork, there's nothing that unifies these pictures (nor do they look very interesting, given the limited view of the actual art). What's the point of having a mob of pictures attack the upper corner of your wall?

The reason "it's not often we see..." is that thankfully most people have sufficient taste not to plaster their art in a corner at ceiling height. So not a fan of this.

I am torn. On the one hand, the arrangement sucks for art viewing: on the other hand, it's a pretty nifty, like, "architectural" element. But I think that in the right place and the right hands it could work really well, so I'm keeping the idea in my groaningly overloaded data bank of ideas. . .

Hmmm.... I recognize this as being something I would not like. But, I'm totally not hating it!

I'm thinking the person who lives there is a giant. Giants are cool.

I guess the art pieces aren't meant to be looked at then... It's art as decoration. The equivalent of buying a painting to match your sofa.

For every reason "it's not often we see," however, it's a very, very good thing there are people go against what conventional people label "taste.

I think this treatment is a little whimsical, it goes with the subject's low-key laid-back lifestyle. It's not offensive.

OK, I'm not a fan of this. If a piece of art is really art, it deserves to be hung so that it can be appreciated. Clustering, like this, works best with pieces that can't stand on their own. And, in my opinion, this kind of arrangement needs to relate to something in its general vicinity and I'm afraid relating to ceiling just doesn't do it for me. Weird for weird's sake isn't good design. That said -- whatever floats your boat.

Interesting...although my first reaction was, "Oh, all the art got scared and ran up into the corner to get away!" (I think I've been watching too much anime this month.)

I'd like it if a few more pieces were added that were lower than anything that's there right now.

You'll see art hung this high in lots of homes in the developing world. Not something I ever wanted to imitate, though...

I was looking at it again... whatever all you are calling "art" that's a shame to clump together and not honor individually and at the proper height, appears to be a few etsy (said in the article), a small stamp collection, some postcards and other clippings and collages, nothing serious.

I am probably not the only one who saves a lot of "silly paper," pictures, cartoons, scraps of a pattern, etc., I'd like to see more than when I'm rummaging through a box, but unlikely to frame in the singular. I think tiling them would be nicer than pinning them to a bulletin board or clipping them to suspended wires, that make the wall look like a studio workspace or a dorm room. Alternately, I could glorify them in a tasteful arrangement at 57 inches high with 2" matting and gilt frames, 16 inches apart and buy those little art lamps for each to set them off against my pure white walls, and a velvet rope barrier just in case you don't have enough class not to touch my art.

How can one possibly see the small prints at he top of the arrangement?! I don't like the look at all.

Hi! Thanks for posting this (this is my house) and thank you ALL for your comments. My husband and I are both artists, so we certainly didn't mean to treat artwork disrespectfully or use it as pure decoration...we hung everything this way to unite and display pieces by a variety of artists (friends, family, etsy, etc), odd collections, scraps of paper, etc. I do appreciate the mix of opinions and think that "good taste" should be challenged often.
-Abbey