Friday, May 15, 2009

Bedroom Pictures

I have four reproductions of paintings in my room:
  • Picasso's Guernica
  • Michelangelo's Creation of Adam
  • Picasso's Old Guitarist
  • A portrait of Albert Einstein
In the last semester I debated whether the gruesomeness of Guernica is really something I want to hold near, see when I rise and retire, etc.  I think it works, though, in conjunction with the others:

     the suffering of humanity 
  + the verge of coming to life
  + the suffering of art
  + the ending of a life devoted to humanity and art
  = my four walls.  

[Edit: just noticed that bedroom, boredom, and broomed contain the same letters - apparently wordplay mode takes over after midnight]

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