24.3.23


Art critic James Elkin argues that paintings are puzzles we feel compelled to solve in order to ease our perplexities about the world in which we find ourselves as well as our uncertainties as to how it is that we found ourselves here 
   courtesy of Timothy Brooks  Vermeers Hat

puzzling paintings

to be solved 
             the idea confused him 
his experience  paintings  artwork  usually absorbed inhabited him 

he an his girlfriend viewed The Girl with the Pearl Earring at San Franciscos Legion of Honor  it was first time in nearly 30 years that Hagues Mauritshuis museum had loaned her for exhibit   

they slowly deliberately worked their way through the gallery artworks that accompanied acting as court to the enclave where she was displayed they approached asif approaching an altar sobersomber   reverent

they had viewed The Girl for more than forty minutes 
                                                        when they left they backed awayhad a difficult time taking their eyes away from her  they felt dopedmesmerised  

they carried their precious experience throughout their four hour ride home through dinner through the night an when they woke in the morning they laid in bedpropped up on pillows enjoying turning the pages of the exhibits catalogue 


speaking for himself he couldnt say or recall he thought anything in The Girls presence 

he did however appreciate Mr Elkins Mr Brooks salient impression

round1430,  Thursday,  23  3. 23
1001,  Reggaefriday,  24  3. 23

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