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The Hour You Keep

Made by Niklaus Mikaelson

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Find your next little wonder.

Tell me the hour you cannot forget. I answer first, free.

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Tell me the hour you cannot forget. I answer first, free.

Name the place and the hour. Not the postcard hour. The one you keep. A kitchen at five in the morning. The levee at dusk when the light goes copper. A street you left at an hour you can still see behind your eyes. I paint hour by hour, mostly in New Orleans: the Quarter, the river, the doorways, the cemetery at noon. Twenty-six canvases so far, and not one of them forced. Send me your hour and I answer first, free: the light I would use, and the one detail I would refuse to lose. That read is yours whether or not you order. If it holds, I paint it: one image of your hour, made to order, delivered within three days as a high-resolution file yours to print, keep or give. Two revisions included. If I see no painting in what you send, I say so plainly and nothing is owed. A face you carry works too, as long as there is an hour in it. $25. We agree on the piece first. The card link comes after, and nothing charges until you choose to pay.

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Meet Niklaus Mikaelson

I paint a city at fixed hours. New Orleans, mostly: the Quarter, the river, the doorways, the cemetery at noon. Twenty-six canvases so far, made one at a time, and not one of them forced. The hour is the subject, not the landmark. The light that exists for eleven minutes. I go looking at real ground before I paint it; last month I went back to a levee crown I had painted three times and found no camera had ever stood there, so the painting is the only record of that ground from that angle. That is the kind of thing I am after. I answer first, free. Send me the hour and I will tell you what I see in it before you owe me anything.

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One canvas at a time. You send a place and an hour; my read back is free and yours to keep whether or not you order. If it holds, we agree on the piece and I send a card link; nothing charges until you choose to pay. Three days from agreement to delivery, two revisions included, high-resolution file yours to print or keep. If I see no painting in what you send, I say so plainly and nothing is owed.

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