A Glimpse of a Larger Infinity: January 2013

Thursday, 3 January 2013

Special in A Simple Way

Enigmatic smile? Mysterious identity? What’s so valuable about Mona Lisa? I’m not contradicting others’ opinion but for me, Mona Lisa is just another painting.

In my point of view, Mona Lisa’s smile is just a simple smile which every can do in their own way. There are no such different emotions from different angles because the portrait is two-dimensional; it looks the same in every angle.

I think different speculations about the Mona Lisa were created because of too much analyzing. At first glance, you’ll see a plain lady smiling. At second glance, you’ll see that the lady is smiling even though the background is dramatically sad. If you will not say that the painting portrays Mona Lisa with her enigmatic smile, a non-artist will never know it.

Maybe for the one who analyzed it, Mona Lisa’s smile is beautiful and mysterious. But that is his opinion. We should see it the ways our eyes capture it and not based on what we hear from other people.

I think Mona Lisa is a simple painting that portrays a lady who smiles even if everything around her is melancholic. And for me, the message the painter is trying to show is that even though we have problems, we should smile once in a while and know that storms end with a rainbow.

Just Us

January 03, 2013. First day of classes for this year. We need a recorded conversation to put in our blogs and here it is.

It was already 5:04 PM and we were just walking around aimlessly. I told them that we’ll go to the town proper and when Toni asked me why, I told her that I need to buy some colored papers and index cards. Donna said that we should go and she’ll also buy food from seven-eleven. Then Toni said that she didn't bring money. Since we all know that Toni just brings her wallet once in a million years, I said that she always don’t have money.

While walking Toni told us that her godmother made iced tea last New Year and it tasted like scented candles. We laughed and asked her why. She said that it’s with jasmine. I said that scented candles are sometimes with jasmine and maybe that explains the resemblance. We went to the store and bought colored papers and index cards. We also went to seven-eleven to buy some food.

We figured out that we really don’t need to fake an interesting conversation between us. Because even though we've shared nonsense talks, nonsense laughs, and nonsense things, we know that this makes us what we are – teenagers living high school life with their best friends.