Take It Personal


June 5, 2025


Not in a casual or decorative sense, but in a way that reaches somewhere deep — beyond explanation, beyond aesthetics. It’s not just about what catches your eye or matches the room. It’s about what lingers. What stays with you after you’ve walked away. What wraps itself around a part of you that maybe didn’t have words yet.

It’s the feeling of déjà vu from a place you’ve never visited. The flicker of a memory you thought time had erased. A dream you haven’t dared to name. The pieces that matter aren’t always the ones that draw a crowd or align with a trend — they’re the quiet ones that catch your breath and stay. The ones that feel like they know you.

Not every piece will do this. Some will pass through your life like beautiful strangers — admired, respected, but never truly known. Others arrive more gently, more unexpectedly. Less polished, maybe. Less obvious. But they speak. They stir something. They reach out not with answers, but with recognition. And something in you answers back.

That’s the power of connection. Not logical. Not explainable. Just felt. It isn’t about prestige or price or fitting in. It’s about resonance — the art that becomes part of your atmosphere. That lives with you. That shares your silence, your shifting moods, your seasons of becoming.

When you choose art that moves you, you’re not just decorating — you’re revealing. Not how you want to be seen, but how you feel. Who you are beneath the surface. The messy, layered, beautiful truth of your inner world. The art you return to, again and again, doesn’t impress you. It understands you. It speaks in the language of your past, your questions, your contradictions.

It becomes part of your story — not an accessory, but a thread in the fabric of your life. A mirror that reflects what’s real, even when you can’t name it yourself.

And in a world that tells you what to value, what to like, what to display — choosing art from the inside out is an act of quiet rebellion. Of honesty. Of presence. You don’t need to justify it. You just need to feel it.

So let it be personal. Let it be yours. Choose what stirs you, what reflects your shifts and shadows, what meets you where words fall short. Let your collection be built not from what’s most admired — but from what’s most true.

Because the art that matters most doesn’t just fill a space.

It fills something in you.

The Christopher Mudgett archive collection is the only one in the world to present the artist’s up-to-date painted, sculpted, engraved and illustrated œuvre and a precise record—through sketches, studies, drafts, notebooks, photos, books, films and documents—of the creative process.
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