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🌹The Kiss...
Most people may know this famous and remarkable artwork, "THE KISS" of Gustav Klimt(Austria,1862~1918).
We people may crave to " kiss" with a beloved like this enviable couple in Klimt work. There might be a thousand one reasons. Once in a while, we people may desire to kiss, the so-called french kiss/soul kiss and sometimes to meltingly kiss in a sweet wetness... its... its.....
I also have known this artwork, but yet I didn't have much interest to admire this painting... however, a few days ago, I was deeply impressed by, while I was appreciating this artwork with its title, " The Kiss". For I felt a state of euphoria in him and in her.
As we see its painting, there is no any chasm/gap between him and her, which looks like a " lump", the state not be split up, which says, their full cuddle/hug in them, though the man seems to have the brown-skinned that most people might dislike the hue. Further, we cannot see his face of how he looks unlike this raptured woman, regardless of it, she is in enchant/ecstasies...in him...
He might have been Gustav Kilmt himself, for in fact he was not handsome in my eyes, so that he would have wanted to veil himself in his painting in such a way, or he might have wanted to ONLY emphasize his beloved... for her euphoria.
That being said, he could find romance very well, in other words, he had a love triangle affair, and more... perhaps. He did not even get married, but had a couple of his children among. For he had a fetish about women, thus almost all his artworks were portrayed by the portraits of "women" based on "eroticism."
Klimt was vastly different from other artists who delved into "self-portrait", it means an indirect question, such as
" Who am I ?" In contrast, Klimt rid his "presence/existence" in his painting, instead of it, filled the portrait of womenă…ˇother people, not himselfă…ˇon the canvas, on this account, he might have loved several women...
According to rumors, he especially loved one of women was named, Emilie Floge. He disliked to write letters itself, but wrote his postcards and his short letters only for "her" every day. Because, he loved her with his spirită…ˇplatonic loveă…ˇwithout their sexual relationship, so before he dies, the moment of the last straw, he said, " Please... bring her to me...". This is her ; Emilie Floge
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Similarly, we people thirst for "LOVE" is, might be expressed "communicate" or "commune with."
Actually, everything in our lives connotes/implies its "communication", by the way, what if we people cannot communicate with others as if "Robinson Crusoe" (novel, Daniel Defoe, UK, published 1719), who spent a long time in the isolated island, then we may feel the utmost loneliness... for human beings are social animals. Who can live as if a " machine " that can never communicate with each other?...No one will do that as long as we human have our own thought and emotion in.
Even so, we people don't want to lose our being/existence/presence among others, but rather, might want to stress "our presence", so to speak, "I am here", which means, "Do not look down on me. I'm better than you."
In such a setting, a man's communication itself might be a route/medium to make others "mine/one's" like a magnet, "the self-centered energy", that draws objects toward "self ", only for "self "... Simply put, it is like a "brainwashing" to make others one's marionette.
Unless people do like this "get attention", we people cannot even make money, for example, if anyone wants to make money through blogging, then bloggers must draw/decoy others with diverse ways to monetize their blog. There should be a mutual and a friendly communication. Who wants to pay the cost without its communication?... In other words, who wants to pay the cost to the dead blog that cannot communicate with?...
Besides, we humans have to touch others' heart through a communication, to move their mind and heart, to make money, that is cruel... in that sense, everybody is like a hunter/fisherman to decoy baits as if the animal kingdom, if not, we cannot live for a living... Likewise, people must conquer/dominate others to live...TO LIVE.
But, ironically people live to DIE, what a paradoxical it is!
In the vortex, we people battle against the other side to "win", so to speak, have a psywară…ˇin order to make them "mine/one's", "my fan/ follower /one's fan/follower" and in order to open their moneybag for an earning and in order to enjoy popularity like stars.
Along the way, if their communication is mutually accepted, we people are likely to think that we receive love from. If not, we people feel a varied sentiment/emotion underneathă…ˇwrath, sorrow, desperation...and the rest...
In the meantime, some become a misanthrope(who hates humans), or a criminal, or a mentally-disordered people, and some sublimate/overcome its bruised heart with something sound methods, that will be the stream of time, might be best cure...maybe...
On the one hand, we people desire love, communicating with others, on the other hand, we hardly lose each of our own presence/realm/room. What if we people are bruised our existence/ego, then people might commit suicide like the well-known author Virginia Woolf (UK, 1882~1941), who wrote the book " A Room Of One's Own ", which pursues feminism. She might have lost her own room due to her bruised heart/ the trauma of rape... hence, she might have killed herself...because of the trampled ego...
There was the tragic fate, which is called "The Little Mermaid", everybody will know this fairy tale, but it is a horrible/grim tragedy... One day, she fell in love with a handsome prince, however unfortunately she could not "commune with" him, for the witch practiced witchcraft to her not to "SPEAK", she was a mute, though she got human's legs to approach to him... Her "presence" before him was "NOTHING" like bubbles that foamed off under the sea... under the sea....
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After all, the miserable mermaid lost both; her beautiful voice and even her life... Because, her ego/existence was disregarded as the "mute." She was not able to say,
" That was ME who saved you...not other princess." to him... to him...her beloved... The denial of the presence....
Likewise, what if we people cannot commune with someone esp. "beloved" like this miserable mermaid, then it will be a great agony and a tragedy...
While, there is a different " sweet " love story. They differed from this tragic mermaid... Some may know this story, "Daddy-Long-Legs" ( Jean Webster, published 1912, USA). I didn't read it yet in person, but I watched it by the animated movie, which I liked so much, when I was teenager perhaps, so that I don't clearly remember its full story.
The protagonist Judy Abbott was an orphan, thus she was brought up an old-fashioned orphanage, dreaming to be a writer someday... She was always cheerful amid the pang/hardship of her life that led her to be "alone" in this world...She might have been very lonely...
One day, unknown sponsor visited in the orphanage, and then he made a decision to help her life. In spite of that, she had never "SEEN" him who were veiled, she just saw the sight of his back that was like long legs, its long shadow on the wall and the bottom, so that Judy called him "Daddy-long-legs", by the way, oddly, the sponsor asked one condition to Judy, that was, writing letters to him regularly! Because, he, the sponsor, believed that letter-writing would be important to the development of a writer.
Judy wrote her letters, her daily life storyă…ˇit was not special nor was great, just a "trivial" her life story, what could be more...? What if she would have been
the rich, then she could have written diverse and abundant experiences based on, such as travel, family, hobby, friends, etc...
Plus, even more oddly, the sponsor has never answered to her! Judy couldn't even know whether or not he has read her letters, who would know it... So, Judy thought that all her letters might have been a throwing "rubbish" into a garbage basket...
In doing so, she harbored her affection toward the sponsor who helped her, what if I were herself, I would would have been too, though he has never answered to her...
Julia Rutledge Pendleton, who befriended for Judy as a college roommate had her uncle. Yes, Judy was able to become a college student by virtue of the sponsor's charity, by the way, Judy could never meet the sponsor until she graduated the college, though she ardently longed for "him" who he was...
At last, Judy met with him who seemed to like Judy very much. Nobody knew that he was none other than "the daddy-long-legs" who was her friend Julia's uncle.
What is more important is, the author of this story was a social welfare worker who help the poor, the weak, so that her job might have led her to write this kind of book...
Likewise, at first glance, their communication looked like
" disconnected " , for the sponsor has never answered, but yet he has read ALL her letters in detail behind! Because, he also fell in love with Judy through her letters. Think about it, if anyone loves someone, then, he/she will read their letters frequently and again and again... and again...and again...
Finally, Judy became a writer, and they got married in the animated movieă…ˇI don't remember the happy ending story exactly...
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Anyway, their communication was successful unlike the pitiful mermaid... Yes...both are fictions, having said that, its stories give us something message about "communication"...
Everything might exist for a "communication" in our lives, such as love, literature, art, music, drama, movie, political, economic, culture, sports, philosophy, religion, business, diplomacy etc. Moreover, everything humans communicate is, might exist for "brainwashingă…ˇthe force of attraction" other people that is why we humans do is, "sin" itself against God and others... Therein lies me whom I am blogging to bite others again today, producing a bitter poison like the head of snakes, the brood of vipers! I am...
So...
Should I stop blogging?...
Should I carry it on?...
What shall I do?......
Meanwhile, if we humans cannot communicate with others, then we might as well die. Why do people have to live?....We, the living , are not the coma who has no one's consciousness. For this reason, people might want to endlessly express something "self " like this; " I am here, please look at me!", "I am still alive!" and might want to constantly receive "feedback" from others and beloved, regarding it as LOVE, though, in fact, it deeply hurts us...
Because, humans themselves are self-centered sinners who consistently produce sin in, so that its communication is the same..."sinful"...
Despite, humans might crave to be intoxicated and to be tempted by something factors; religion, gambling, love, sex, money, success, beauty, health, car, stock, relationship, communication, game, study, work, alcohol, drug, smoking, shopping, collecting, hobby, power, fame ...etc.
While, we people might want to release from each of our life's misery through the intoxication and the
temptation like the effect of morphine/painkilling drug
and like the mermaid who dreamed to love with...but, her love was unreturned love, impossible one-sided love, which was not able to communicate with...forever... forever...
The magic cure that the black witch gave to her was like the morphine that decreases the pain of dying, even so, it can never prevent the last death...
True be told, no one can live like a machine, people (if they are not the machine) are supposed to do something on and on, knowing the futility of life, the addiction, the frustration, the loneliness, the aging, the death, the failure, the sorrow, the heartbreaking ...something negative factors, that is a man's life, which might be the same as slaughtering pigs in a confined fence... Such piggish humans cannot eat the precious pearl, but only eat filthy things in the dungheap, stinking its dirt.
If humans are the same as "dirty" porker(a pig fattened to provide meat), then we must live like the porker in there, eating its dung until the day we die, that will be the best life in God's eye. Because, humans can never be" presence/being/existence" in the presence of God.
For time cuts off/disjoints everything humans do, whatever we do, because we humans must not be "Being" but must be the disjointed collage/collection of "incidents /happenings" that can never be existence in the flowing of time....
Such time denies the "presence" of human being as if God does, accordingly it makes us to be simply "incidents" to which we cannot catch it nor can we touch it in the history, in the phantom, removing our existence every minute, day after day...on and on..
Even time erases a man's death to forgetă…ˇto be "Nothing ", " Nihil " , so that one's death becomes "Nothing " in the history, for it is forgotten little by little.... there only remains one's name.
In a way, even Jesus Christ disappeared in the history as same as humans have to become "Nihil" ă…ˇlike the phantom. He was born and died and then resurrected, but He vanished in the streaming of time as fair as humans must be. Now Jesus Christ was only left in the book of the Bible with the "TEXT."(Words of something written)
However, Only He conquers time, for "He is eternal", which says that "He is spirit" ; ESV John 6:63 Jesus says,
" It is the Spirit who gives life ; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life."
Then, it might be able to sump up like that ; He is spirit, His spirit is the words that He have spoken give life, therefore He can give life through His words(text); ESV 1 Peter 1:25...But the Word of the Lord remains forever/ ESV Isaiah 40:8...but the word of our God will stand forever.
In addition, He is also eternal. If He Himself is not the eternal spirit, how can He give life? As a result, the Spirit is eternal, not the flesh ; ESV John 4:24 Jesus says, ..." God is spirit..."
Well, I doubt the resurrection of human, but yet what if Jesus was born and died and then resurrected, then we His creation might have to be done as same as Jesus did.
So, humans were born and die(are aging to die again today) and then will resurrect...
Because, we humans are His clone, flippantly speaking, we humans are another Jesus Christ Himself, for He is our own body and we are in Him as His body itself for which it cannot be detached from. But, only for His people will be... and He only knows them according to the Bibleă…ˇall is not my personal opinion and I hope so...
In this regard, everything humans do is, might be the phantom/ nihil/worthless. My blogging might be also the phantom like a trash heap....worthless! and it might have to exist only for my own monologue and for my monodrama, not to brainwash/bewitch/magnetize other people...
That being said, ironically we humans might have to necessarily live in that phantom(nihil, there is the song: "Nella Fantasia", which translates, in the phantom) as same as Jesus who is the invisible phantom/nihil and lived 2,000 years ago(!). We cannot see Him, His spiritual world, with our bodily eyes which we live in the third dimension...
But, even the third dimension is also the phantom that will vanish...
We might live just for the moment in the phantom, the collage of the moments are, the incidents of our lives that cannot be an existence.
Like the lightness of existence...
Like the wind blows,
Like the butterfly leaves out of the ash-colored gravestone that looks like our old bone's color...
Like the feather scatters all directions,
All that will be gone...
But, exist only for the very moment...
There are different kisses unlike this painting of Gustav, the kiss. This is: its paintings were depicted by Snadro Chia. ( Italy, 1946~ ) What do you feel, while you are looking at this kiss?; as below :
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Well... In my eyes, I'm feeling the things; melancholy mood, heartache, coldness, heaviness, unwillingness, artificial kiss, modern style...something like that, even if it was colored a violent, a stimulated hue, using the "complementary colors contrast" : Red vs Green, that is a complementary color, but it doesn't look light/cheerful, showy, powerful and dynamic as much as the effect of complementary color influences.
This artist might have expressed its aura to intentionally highlight the reversal effect, using the complementary color vice versa/reversely, namely in fact it has no the effect of complementary color in this painting, even though it was colored by it, which means that the kiss has no the very love in them, the kiss is not alive, but is dead kiss unlike "the contrast color effect" that represents something dynamic atmosphere that is why he/artist who utilized the reversal effect in such a manner is very smart, I think so...
This genre seems like "expressionism" means ; emphasize one's own feeling and motion etc. , perverting the original images as artists want, and it seems like "fauvism", which means, its genre drastically simplifies the line/composition and colors a provocative/incentive, a stimulating, a drastic hue on the canvas, which says, a bold, primary colors.
Virtually, all humans might be the "expressionist " who wants to express their own thought and emotion through a communication.
Its kiss might symbolize a modern man's kiss under something oppression...What will it be?... A closed mind...money...distrust...suspicion...trauma...disillusionment from love fantasy only for sex...bargain, dealing...business... livelihood...sadness... misery....lost love...etc. Such things cross my mind, seeing this gloomy kiss between the man and the woman...
And there are the other kiss, is Judas Iscariot's kiss...who betrayed Jesus as one of His disciples.
The Kiss...
I don't want to ask which one we people have among, for all these things dwell in a man's heart and mind...
Regardless, almost all people may want to kiss with the euphoria in the golden-colored embrace that
Gustav Klimt depicted, which
might be whispering, "Let Me In You..."
Where am I going?
Where am I flowing in?
Where are you going?
Where are you flowing in?....
Along the way,
We might want to receive love
We might want to receive love
The heart,
" I LOVE YOU "
Not mono
Not mono
But duo
Not duo
But mono
Which cannot be two
The mono...
Which cannot be two
The mono...
Even though it is...
It is...
It is...
It is...
It is...
What if someone questions me
What life is,
What love is,
Then I would like to answer;
We just live as a river runs
We just love like a flowing river...
We just love like a flowing river...
The river
flows in me
flows in me
and
In
YOU
The streaming...
in us with...
Isourblog Shalom
