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| "The Blue Room" |
| Today I stood in awe of a masterpiece. Today I was humbled. I don't know if it was hormones, or hunger, or perhaps just another step along the road that is my life, but today I finally saw what Art is all about. I don't mean I saw it with my eyes; that would have been too simple a lesson to learn. I viewed it with my soul. I felt it in every fabric that is my being. I tasted the colors and moved freely through the oils that adorned the canvas. I stood next to the bather in the tub and felt the chill of the morning air. I smelled the aroma of the soap she used; the flowers on a nearby table and even the artist's fresh paint. I wanted to crawl back under the rumbled covers of the bed she'd just vacated and snuggle down to watch it all unfold. To watch a Master at work. I knew he was there, in that room -- with the bather and I; observing. He scrutinized her form, he measured the light that flowed into the room from the open window and visualized how it would all transmit onto canvas. Light and shadow - color and contrast. They say that Picasso's Blue Period was filled with a mood of sorrow and despair, but I didn't feel that. I felt a calm rush over me. A silent appreciation of the beauty that is life. When I first glimpsed the painting that hung on the museum wall, it was through a throng of onlookers who seemed to part like the red sea as I approached. I wanted to reach out and touch each stroke of the artist's brush; allow my fingers to skim up and down the dried oil that made each facet of that painting come to life ... for me. My emotions ran high. Even as I viewed the other masterworks on display, my mind and heart were drawn back to "The Blue Room" and the woman in the tub. She is me and you, and every woman who has ever stood naked against the world. Open. Vulnerable. Alone. She is the Goddess in each of us. Free flowing, abstract, and bathed in blue. GlassPoet ~2003~ |
| "... blue is above all, a psychological matter - a return to the self - to life as it is." - Pablo Picasso - |
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