Staring into Emptiness
Spring 2008
Watercolor study from Georges de La Tour’s painting
Of Mary Magdalene “The Repentant” 1640
Georges de la Tour did a series of four painting featuring Mary Magdalene which all have a similar pictorial objective in showing Mary’s gaze past pervious sin and mortality into enlightenment and purification. The skull in the Baroque era frequently represents mortality and inevitability of death, and the flame represents salvation.
Are we our everlasting “purified” self online and through the computer (one of man/woman’s greatest achievements to modern society)? In this study I tried to translate the shift in attitudes and values from society today verses western classical culture. What do we worship today? What do we value? Is our Lab Top computer offering us perfection and salvation from our mortal selves, or is it a void and a source of mindless wondering that can be overpowering?
Watercolor study from Georges de La Tour’s painting
Of Mary Magdalene “The Repentant” 1640
Georges de la Tour did a series of four painting featuring Mary Magdalene which all have a similar pictorial objective in showing Mary’s gaze past pervious sin and mortality into enlightenment and purification. The skull in the Baroque era frequently represents mortality and inevitability of death, and the flame represents salvation.
Are we our everlasting “purified” self online and through the computer (one of man/woman’s greatest achievements to modern society)? In this study I tried to translate the shift in attitudes and values from society today verses western classical culture. What do we worship today? What do we value? Is our Lab Top computer offering us perfection and salvation from our mortal selves, or is it a void and a source of mindless wondering that can be overpowering?
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