I've got his thing about...

... harmony, and it drives me nuts sometimes. Finding visual harmony, or I should say discovering the lack of it is a constant source of irritation. There are some things that I cannot look at, like a power-point on the wall, slightly off centre, or otherwise not in a visually desirable position. And I have this thing where I have to align objects, one with another, say in the distance. Maybe I have to fit one object 'inside' and on centre of another. This could require me to adjust my line of sight until I find that ever-desirable balance.

Too often the lack of visual harmony is only slight. For example, years ago I rented a house and the light fitting above the bed where I slept was rectangular. But, it was about 2 degrees out of square and could not be made square to the room. I couldn't relax there by staring off into the ceiling without a worry. I simply could not look at it, so I took it down. Now I am not saying things have to be symmetrical but they have to be in balance, in harmony, without tension. I can and do have an appreciation for assymmetrical things, mostly architectural, but in those each element has to be in its most desirable position. The worst of all things is to discover something that ever so slightly askew with no hope of remedy. And to think it would have taken no more effort to get it right also bugs me.

And that's a bit of my view from here.