Art Explained By A Writer: Susanna and the Elders

After the Hurricane - part 1
Two Women - part 2
An Officer Dictating - part 3
The Visit of the Suitor- part 4
The Ugly Dutchess





Painting is my passion and life and I consider myself lucky that Daddy is not against it.
For as long as I can remember I sit in his studio and watch him work. Finally, the moment came when he gave me a brush and said: Now it's your turn. It turned out it was and in a different way than I expected.



_{Susanna and the Elders (1610) - Artemisa Gentileschi}

Dear Diary,

I know I've neglected you but today I need to talk to you. There's no one else I can tell that I feel incredibly dirty. My skin stinks and so does my hair and I have bad taste in my mouth. As soon as I arrived home I spent hours in the tub scrubbing my skin while I kept gagging every time I thought about what happened.
It took hours before I could get out of the tub and the water was cold by that time. I didn't feel it because my mind was on what happened although I'm trying desperately to forget it. I burned my new dress and all the items I used today. I don't want to see them ever again. It all reminds me of those elders...

What should I do now? My skin smells and my body feels like a stranger's as if my soul has moved into another body, more of a corpse since I already wrote I can't feel anything and I don't know if I will ever feel again. I think about killing myself although I love painting I don't see a way now to survive. I see their faces everywhere and I keep hearing their creepy voices.

One is bad enough but two is too much.

No, I don't believe I can live with it; I cannot forget their grip and the stinking breath of those two old farts. The world is disappointing, too much injustice...

I'm sorry if I upset you but I can't help but cry and I don't know if I can handle seeing the world again let alone modeling for a bunch of perverts who can't control themselves.


Susanna


1610 is 8 ,I wonder what it means.

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28-8-2024
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