Who are your favorite artists?
Vincent van Gogh and Salvador Dali showed me my illnesses in real time, making graphs of my brain so I could see it. When van Gogh goes into the places that make rings appear in his vision, the ones that dot his galaxies, my mind has that mode as well. It just comes out in words. The cast of Doctor Who didn’t do as good a job as I did searching for paintings that say “For Amy” in the Musee Dorsay. I never found one (nor “for Leslie,” either, but that wasn’t the point. The point is that he is now long dead…. long….. and you can still feel his presence when you go to his wing of the old train station. It’s like people gathered all his stuff, put it in the train station, and he decided he lives there, now.
The Persistence of Memory is a grid, with time dripping all over it. Time drips all over me because of it. Like them, I have no discernable future as to what life my writing will take on after I’m gone, if at all. I can’t worry about that, because my blog’s purpose is fulfilled just by existing. But it does resonate with me when people tell me they read in the bathroom, because that’s about as vulnerable as I have to get when these entries are being written. I’m in my room, alone and sometimes covered with blankets using a laptop. Still naked, exposed, and afraid.
I would find it interesting to know what Vincent and Salvador think of me in those moments. Are we tracking together like I think? Can I hang with that kind of brilliance?
I have known enough artists in my time to know what I can. Because in the creativity stage, we are but small children who need to reassure each other constantly. My art is fed from theirs. Who knows who is fed frm mine?
However, I cannot focus on what will come after me, but what comes through me. What will come out of me using only the persistence of memory on a starry night?
When I was young my fist art book was Dali. I loved everything he did. I knew he was brilliant even at the youngest age
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I also like that he was every bit as neurodivergent and weird as me. His art, his everything makes sense to me from the standpoint that we’re both a little weird.
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And clever. I love his weirdness and his clever talent
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I need to go and search around DC for more Van Gogh, and possibly Dali, but I don’t think any of his work is kept here. I tend to go to the National Portrait Gallery over and over, when according to my books, there is indeed more than one art museum in DC. 😛
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I was just talking about seeing a Van Gogh in real life. You can feel the energy. I suddenly want to go to NY to the MOMA
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The MoMA is only about four hours away by train, so I need to look into that as well. My favorite is the Van Gogh room at the Musee D’Orsay in Paris, because not only do they have some really famous works by him, there’s an entire Gaugin room as well. The Musee D’Orsay is an embarrassment of riches, and I’m trying to find a museum that has that vibe without having to travel to Paris every time. 😛
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That is my all time favorite museum! I love the Musee D’Orsay!!!
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