Pensamiento

Saturday, 8:30 in the afternoon. Today is November 25th, year of our Lord (as is every year). We have finally arrived at Heimhuder. Christine was waiting for us with open arms as she usually does and welcomed us into her home to get our well deserved rest. But of course, before we could go to bed, my “pirin” had to put everything in order and under control and I took that time to flick through “Kultur&Medien” in the “Hamburger Abenbblatt”. I came across a reproduction of a painting by the great German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich. The painting is entitled “Zwei Männer in Betractung des Mondes”, which translates as „Two men gazing at the moon“. This work in particular had never really caught my attention but this time, seeing it on that newspaper article which encouraged readers to go see the exhibition… I knew the reason for my curiosity. 

I went to see the “Ausstellung” as soon as I could. What did I see? What was the painting telling me? I depicts two men looking far away, as far as the eye could reach. There are two of them: one that looks and one that encourages the other one to look, pointing in the right direction. Both of them want to see. There are always two… and there are those who look as far and as much as they can. One can observe and observe but… can we see the moon? Can we see the light? Can we see creation?

Getting back to my characters (for I have made them mine), there are two of them. They meet each other, they love each other, or hate each other, they walk along the same path. When one gives and ones receives, there’s always two. If one of them has to lean on the other, there’s two… there’s always two. That is why I want to jump into Friedrich’s painting, so to speak, and become a third observer and be able to transmit what I see through their eyes and mine. 

I’m already in my position!