Game On

Inspired by the Daily Prompt: If you could be someone else for a day, who would you be, and why?

 

In the play Macbeth, the Witch’s cauldron and it’s grisly contents represent Macbeth’s dark and troubled mind:

Below is a painting by Gustave Courbet- It is titled “The Painter’s Studio” and it is an allegory summing up seven years of his “artistic and moral life “

Gustave Courbet
The Painter’s Studio
1855

I  might be playing with fire here, but if I could spend a day inside of the head of the artist Courbet or the fictional character Macbeth- you know what? I think I would do it. What kind of images and stories could I bring back after spending the day skating around the edges of despair and visual creativity where color and form would occupy every free inch of my brain?

I’d like to know. 

Is It Over Yet?

Spring isn’t here and I’m ready for Summer to be over.

The Lunatic of Étretat,
. Hugues Merle French (1823-1881

Dark Little Windows

The Darkness inspires me.

Still Life with Oysters, a Silver Tazza, and Glassware
Willem Claesz. Heda1635

Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle
Arnold Böcklin1872

The drowned fisherman
Michael Ancher1896

The Beginning

Female character China saqra of the Saqra
(devil, in Quechua) dance, province of Paucartambo,
Cusco, Peru 2010

“Terror made me cruel . . .”

– Emily Bronte, ‘Wuthering Heights’.

1900
Woodcut of Devil and witch riding on horseback.