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It's 2 am
My dog's been doing #shit #pointillism art in the garden for about 8 hours now.
Can't call the vet I guess.
They're probably sleeping
I would like to get some sleep too
Instead I just read and retooted a long post about Virginia prisons where racist sadist guards abuse... #DOGS to suppress inmates
Bastards

Have to go outside now
My dog wants to finish the painting

"Women at the Well, Opus 238." Paul Signac, 1892.

I've talked about Signac before. While I'm not a huge fan of Pointillism, and I consider Seurat overrated (there, I said it, I expect people to unfollow me now), but his works have a certain appeal.

Here we have two ladies at a well overlooking the Mediterranean. This scene is just DRENCHED with sunlight; in fact, the yellowness of the grass hints that there might be a bit of a drought going on. Signac would spend half of each year at Saint-Tropez, on the French Riviera, where his paintings sought to depict an ideal society. This was originally to have been part of a grander, sweeping canvas....but he decided the two ladies at the well were enough.

This is also a great example of "artistic license" as a concept. Most of the elements here do exist...the lighthouse, the well, the distant mountains, the citadel on a hill....but they don't exist together like this. But he put them together to make an idealized view. Kind of like putting the Washington Monument next to the Empire State Building in a picture...

Makes me think of summer...

From the Musée d'Orsay, Paris.

'The last breath of a broken dream'

Inspired by my own study and research on the dark side of humans. This piece is one from domestic violence and abuse series.

The poem:

Silent tears, my last witness
This fortress is finally falling
My sin is to trust

Bath in my own red,
unmended wounds
My sin is to cry

To the whispers within the wind
I let go of my unspoken scars
May it speak for me
May it strangle all the wrong