Mary Jane 2040
Picassoed
“Do you think it interests me that this painting represents two figures? These two figures existed, they exist no more. The sight of them gave me an initial emotion; little by little their real presence grew indistinct — they became a fiction for me, then they disappeared, or rather, were turned into problems of all kinds. For me they are no longer two figures but shapes and colours. Don’t misunderstand me — shapes and colours, though, that sum up the idea of the two figures and preserve the vibration of their existence.”
Pablo Picasso could talk a lot of nonsense, like any artist. But sometimes he managed to pluck just right words out of the ether.
The vibration of the existence of these young women resonates beyond the notion of shape and color. They may, at this singular moment, be a fiction — but at the heart of all fiction is a sort of truth. Not necessarily a larger truth, or a truer truth, or even a recognizable truth, but the sort of truth that reverberates with the unseen force of gravitational waves.
You look at this photo, and for a moment — at the very least, a moment — space-time expands and contracts, and though the world appears to go on exactly as it always has, something has changed.
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