When I was a child, one of my aunts married a man who loved modern art.

In the beginning, he didn’t know much about it, so he befriended gallery owners and asked them to introduce him to up and coming painters.

He filled his home with art that was strange and disturbing. Maybe that made him appear sophisticated to his peers. Some of those were probably good investments, and may be worth a lot of money today.

However, as a child, I was afraid to be left alone in any room of that home. Even walking down the hallway from the living room to the bathroom was a tricky experience.

A home should tell you nice things

There’s an old Feng Shui saying that goes like this “All things in your home are talking to you. Make sure they have nice things to say.”

My aunt’s walls weren’t saying nice things. There were distorted bodies, contorted faces, fragmented realities. An educated eye that understands art would see the artistic value in the pieces, but no one’s inner child would feel at peace with them.

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