The Only Deep Truth to Paint

Artwork by John Diamond, M.D.

To paint can mean to apply cosmetics, to falsify.

Let her paint an inch thick

– Hamlet about his mother (5.1.184)

and

I have heard of your paintings too, well enough. God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another ….. To a nunnery [brothel], go.

– Hamlet to Ophelia (3.1.142)

As C.T. Onions states, painting can be “specious, feigned, unreal.”*

And artistic painting can also be untrue.

Whatever it’s superficial appearance, the only deep Truth to paint is Jen, Matrophilia, in any of Its infinite manifestations.

* A Shakespeare Glossary