Pretty Pink, Baby Blue

For those who haven’t been to my house, I live with my friend Kathy in Park Slope in Brooklyn. Our building only has two apartments in it, ours comprising the bottom two floors. Our bedrooms are upstairs, along with a bathroom and a middle foyer-type room that’s basically a lobby we stuck our giant couch in. Downstairs is our living room, kitchen, the other bathroom, laundry machines, and our back yard. Our living room has been our main decoration focus, but since it’s pretty much covered now we’re starting on the upstairs middle room. We painted it a pumpkin-y terra cotta (gay) when we moved in, and there’s some nice furniture up there, but nothing on the walls yet. So I bought poster-sized prints of two of my favorite portraits to hang next to each other in big black frames: Thomas Gainsborough’s “The Blue Boy” and Thomas Lawrence’s “Pinkie, Sarah Barrett Moulton,” which looks like it was made to be a companion to “Blue Boy” even though they differ in artist and by a quarter of a century. Apparently they also hang side by side at the Huntington in San Marino, California. I did not know this until Wikipedia told me so. Maybe I am an art genius. Or maybe I am just a victim of predictable art classes.