https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/449537
(In Public Domain)
Fifth Sister – 11/30/20
…and, of course, the color blue was on her mind, having just finished her term paper on Islamic art and specifically on the Mihrab, the “blue” prayer niche within her own mind, sometimes focusing on the blue, sometimes the niche, sometimes on the writings surrounding and framing the arch, and sometimes just enjoying, even delighting in, the patterns within the stars and hexagons over the arch and within the niche – being very careful to never use the terms, “delightful” or “wonderful” or any other term of personal joy and fulfillment in viewing any art object in the higher, that’s a laugh, academic circles and never in a serious, another laughable academic cliché, senior term paper. Ah, the banality of studying, describing, analyzing art, and banishing the heart and soul from the discussion, somehow being uncomfortable with acknowledging the mind, the heart, and soul of the artists who design, and the hands of the artisans that created, fashioned, leaving the imprints of their life and soul, their humanity, upon the very thing now others behold, but few, it seems, willing to pause and consider and be thrilled with being in the presence of the humanity that made it and the lives that breathed into what now lies before them…as if there is nothing to learn or enjoy or enter into the pathos, and joy, and hopes and fears and sadness, even, of another…
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