"Something" - oilpaint on board
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.... The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead. The totalitarian world, whether founded on Marx, Islam, or anything else, is a world of answers rather than questions. There, the novel has no place.
-- Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Something, 1999
Oil on fiberboard
40 x 30 cm / 15.75" x 11.81"
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Like a predator's eye.
I sense his anger, I don't know why.
It's there, up high, up in the sky
the ever-looking eye,
trying to read signals and answer a why
the reasons to live, the certainty to die.
Each sign he gets one big angry cry.
One day he'll come for you, but you're not going to hide.
This piece gave me a twist on my stomach, it's a fear really awkward. As if this big eye is tracking signals of all around the world, but every incoming information fills it with disappointment and anger. Anger ready to explode.
Great piece! Well done @gric!!
Thank you Ruth for this beautiful interpretation!
Fuck this is so awesome and I don't know why...
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Like a tripod from Well's World of the Worlds this machine looms over the rural landscape, menacing, raising many questions. "How did it get there?" "What does it want?" "Who controls it?" For me, it is an invasion of technology into nature, just like when you admire a glorious, seemingly pristine natural landscape, but there are huge powerline pylons dotting it. Nice painting and very powerful quote by Kundera.
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So surreal... love it..^
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Interesting thought🤔🙂
This is something...! Great painting!
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Nice pic .......upvoted
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Love "something"! Still remember when I first saw it on your website a long time ago... and I was totally puzzled how you accomplished the moving "antennas", when one clicked on them 😮
That was 17 years ago! :-)