New Year's Eve Frame TV art from a single painting: a candlelit Victorian mantel at the stroke of midnight, held on screen for two silent hours in 4K — no music, no narration and no cuts, made to leave running as a screensaver on a Samsung Frame TV or any 4K screen through New Year's Eve and into the first hours of 2027.
The clock on the mantel says midnight. Two coupes of champagne are poured, the bottle waits in a silver ice bucket, and the evergreen and holly left over from Christmas still run the length of the mantel with a gold ribbon wound through them. Behind it all, Happy New Year is lettered in gold leaf across a frosted window, and beyond the glass the fireworks have started over the snowy rooftops of the town.
It has the look of an old drawing-room oil painting: deep umber and old gold, loose brushwork, and warm candlelight against the cold blue of the night outside.
It is one image all the way through: no slideshow, no transitions, no zoom. What moves is the light. The two candles flicker, bubbles rise in the champagne, a soft glow drifts slowly across the room, and outside the window small gold fireworks bloom and fade over the rooftops — a different one every time, for two hours. They are distant and silent, so nothing in the room ever gets loud.
It is made for New Year's Eve: behind the party, for the quiet hour after it, or for seeing the year in at home.
