Johannes VERMEER Girl with the Pearl Earring
“Has the girl just turned toward us or is she just about to turn away?
Looked at with this question in mind, it does seem that such immanence,
one way or the other, is of its essence […] The answer is that she’s actually doing both.
This is a woman who has just turned toward us and is already about to look away:
and the melancholy of the moment with its impending sense of loss,
is transferred from her eyes to the tearlike pearl dangling from her ear.
It’s an entire movie in a single frozen image"
Text from the very fantastic essay,
Vermeer in Bosnia, by Lawrence Weschler.
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