Infinite Music

1900: Take piano: keys begin, keys end. You know there are 88 of them. Nobody can tell you any different. They are not infinite. You're infinite... And on those keys, the music that you can make... is infinite. I like that. That I can live by...

1900: You rolled out in front of me a keyboard of millions of keys, millions and billions of keys that never end. And that's the truth Max, that they never end. That keyboard is infinite... and if that keyboard is infinite, then on that keyboard there is no music you can play. You're sitting on the wrong bench... That is God's piano.

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The story began in the musical instrument shop, a devastate man with a little scruff walked in, put his case on the table, asking for selling his trumpet.

"A musician who had to exchange his beloved instrument in order to feed himself...." I was drowning myself into this scene right away, how painful that must be.

Later I found out that there is perhaps another meaning for the trumpeter, the end of old times, an extremely respectful way in memory of his most intimate friend in music, the pianist 1900.

What is your "the other"?

Have you ever thought of..." what if everything you own now, has 'the other' object in the other world?"

The truth is, there are always two sides to everything, right and wrong, good and bad.

In 'Coraline', what she needs didn't get fulfilled in reality. Someday, she followed the path of mice, and found this small door , which originally was just bunch of bricks behind, was surprisingly 'goes to somewhere!'

The small door is an 'exit', a media/key to escape from the unsatisfying current situation, and the tunnel connecting two world symbolizes the process, the route, and the 'way.'

What is in the world of 'the other' ?

Is that the place where everything/everyone is completely unrelated, unexpected, so we will be distracted by all the 'newness', excited about the adventure ?

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Is that the place where everything/everyone is fully perfect to us, matching our expectation, and nothing needed to worry about, whatever we dreamed of before, it becomes true in the world of 'the other.'

what is yours?

Paula Rego: pintor português

Undoubtedly, she is one the best storyteller in the contemporary world.

The very first impression, to me, is "bleeding" and "realistic"

Check her "snow white" series, they are very far from fairy-tale.

What we seen, is the critical side of the story:

The poisonous apple given by the stepmother, and what snow-white tried to protect, is

her virginity. (That is what has been described in the book, however, me and my friend were wondering why would an apple related to "virginity" ?!........Later I thought of the symbol of apple in christianity, apple = sin, that might explain something.)

This one is from snow-white series as well, the woman in the black dress bending her knee like being punished in the back is most likely her stepmother, remember in the story, the first time snow-white was supposed to be murdered by a hunter, turns out that she not only survived, but even the hunter (killer) was enchanted by her, the expression on snow-white's face definitely shows the victory she made.

The women figures appearing in Paula's painting are mostly sharp and man-ish, as well as the body, people who are used to venus-like images, for example, botticelli from the Renaissance (check the work by him below).

The subject of this one is "Angel", the women who holds a sword on her right hand and a sponge on her left hand.

Ms Rego used a lot of materials and stories from Disney world. Like the following work, she is inspired by the Disney "fantasy". The muscularity of these ballerinas is very obvious.

Ms Rego is also a Practitioner of Realism, in lots of her works, she created the model, setting the exact gesture for the figures, before she composed.