Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Spinners painting Diego Velasquez

Looking at this painting it seems to have multiple connections. I am not that into art and havent spent a whole lot of time analyzing... any really. But why not, here we go.

The background of the painting is more interesting to me personally because I like the way the light is coming through thewindow onto the painting and what seems to be athena goddess of war in her helmet. Also the blus tapestry that I am assuming is Athena's weaving that is hanging up in the back is cool with her admiring it. The foreground doesn't do a whole lot for me but the red curtain on the left is interesting because obviously we want to know whats behind the curtain, but I think that might kind of be a reference to not looking to deeply into things especially that of the gods business because we have come to know that, that does not work out for anyone, ever hah.

Signs and Symbols

When I first read this story I didn't see that there were three pages for a few minutes hahaha I was trying to find what everyone else was talking about, looking on google for a different version and scrolling through all of the other blogs trying to piece this together... =P But after I found the next page button small as it may be everything everyone was saying made much more sense, duh.

Getting to the story, obviously the whole piece is filled with signs and symbols, imagine that! But I'm sure I missed more than I found. I feel bad for the parents as I am sure most do, but I am also happy for them making the decision to bring home their son. When the phone rang for the first time I was almost 100% positive it was because they had lost their son. When it rang the second time I was a little less worried for the family because that was too coincidental to be a different person on the line. Professor said that if something happens once it is chance, if something happens twice it is coincidence and if something happens three times it is design (mythology) I dont remember if it was because of this Nibokov story he said it but it fits with the phone calls for sure.

The way that the piece kind of left you hanging and wondering what happened I liked because you kind of get to choose 'your' own destiny on how you want to interoperate the piece. It reminded a lot of the movie Inception because at the end of that movie you kind of get to decide for yourself if he was still dreaming or if it was in fact real life. Also the dream within a dream fits a little into this story because there were a few mini storys that did not seem to fit in, and did not seem to be of much importance but I am sure that is just because of my ignorance, just like the movie little pieces that seem obsolete can make it that much more interesting after you figure them out.

The connection from Ovid to Nibokov was to Icarus and Daedalus because the son wanted to fly, and the father wants to free him. It could maybe have a slight connection to Phaeton's ride because the son wants to fly and I guess you could say the father wants to free him in that story too, but he more just wants too protect him. I think an argument could be made for either but Icarus and Daedalus story might be a little bit close of a connection.    

Displacement

Last Fall in a town just outside of Anchorage, Alaska, Travis entered the harbor, docked his boat and stepped onto the shore. He was warmly met by Patrick the Mayor of Anchorage. The two Mayors (Travis being that of Fairbanks) were very kind and respectful to each other, Patrick was a very hospitable Mayor. Plus it didn't hurt that Travis was the son in law of Patrick. Travis lived in Fairbanks with his wife Pam who after years of being away from her old home and family wanted to see her sister again, who lived all the way in Anchorage.   Travis made his way all the way to Anchorage and when he got there he saw the most stunning woman, dressed as a queen with the beauty of an angel. Immediately he wanted nothing more than to sleep with her. The trouble was that she was his sister in law and his wife Pam would most likely be furious.

Travis took Penny, Pam's sister, to his hunting cabin in the woods where he proceded to rape her. He did not really know what to do with her now. He did realize that obviously no one could ever figure out about this horrible act, so Travis grabbed his hunting knife and cut out the tongue of this beautiful, beautiful woman. He left her in the cabin and drove his truck 100 miles along a dirt road to get back to his boat, when he got home he simply told his wife that her sister had gotten killed in a hunting accident last week. Pam was devastated and went into mourning for her baby sister.

Penny still being in the cabin had no real means of escape because she was so far away from any civilization with not tongue to cry for help and no car to travel. She knew how long the dirt road went for because of the trip to the cabin so there was no way she could walk all that way. There was no phone and no computer in this little cabin. To keep her self from going mad she started writing, she wrote about what had happened to her and what Travis had did. She got a passing by hunting party to take the letter to Pam, feeling as though she was safer staying in the cabin where Travis would think she was isolated.

When Pam got this letter, she knew immediately whose handwriting it was. She did not shed a tear now for it was time for revenge. She went to work on devising a devious plan.

Pam took Travis' son out hunting early the next morning, they hiked out about a mile and a half before she loaded her rife and put it to his head. Travis' son pleaded and cried for her to show mercy for it was not he who wronged her. It didn't matter. Pam pulled the trigger and blew a hole in his head. She cleaned him like a deer, skinnng him and removing his innerds. She didn't see him as any better that his father, and the rest of Travis' family she thought of as demons. She hiked back his cleaned body and walked directly into the kitchen. For the rest of the day she made a feast for Travis. She told him that it was nessesary for all his hard work lately helping out the community. She pulled together this gorgeous feast for him, all with his sons body. She made stew, steak, cornbread, salad, and even fried his sons eyeballs and made Rocky Mountain Oysters from him.

When she presented all this to Travis, he was overjoyed. He was not aware that his son was incorperated into this entire meal. Pam told him to watch the game and left him all to himself to devour all of this great food. He chowed down while watching his favorite team the Seahawks feast on the Redskins in the NFC Wild Card game. When the game was over and the food was all gone nothing could bring him down... or so he thought.

Pam walked in with the letter rolled up from her sister in one hand and Travis' sons' head in the other. She threw it on the table and right away Travis knew what had happened, he chased her, but being so full and so devastated that he just ate his son, Pam jumped in his truck and peeled out of the drive way, never to return to this city.