The Point of Writing this Is…
There is No Point (Day 7)
“Thus the heavens and the earth were completed, and all their hosts. By the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.” — Genesis 2.2
This year, my goal is to be the subject of a Thought Experiment whereby I will randomly capture thoughts each day,one hour at a time.
Why?
Life is random, isn’t it?
It has been exactly seven days since I embarked on this Thought Experiment in Medium.com. The goal was to do this for a year. I didn’t know where this would lead me, only that I wanted to capture the randomness in life. I don’t know if I have the discipline to keep this up for a whole year.
But this week’s Writing has led me to today.
[TIME WINDOW: It is Sunday, September 29th, 2013, 10:18 a.m. and I realized that I had not made any entries of Day 7 (Saturday, September 28th.) The writing contained here is from the future, writing about the past.]
The day started with Beverley and myself going to QiGong/Tai Chi class, and then having breakfast at Skyway Diner.
It was at Skyway that so many thoughts were overflowing. As if a dam of creative ideas and energy were bursting.
I said to Beverley that we have to go to “Michael’s” to purchase tracing paper and charcoal stick. And then try to trace out the “Skull” that I was certain was contained in Michelangelo’s “The Last Judgement” (see Day 2's Writing).
The result is what you see documented in the article, Michelangelo’s 2D Image Decoded — The Last Judgement, Sistine Chapel.]
And the accompanying youtube Video, which was posted at 12:00 a.m. this morning.
It seemed to reveal a hidden image of the face of “Jesus Christ”. Initially I thought it was the face of “God”.
Beverley was skeptical at first.
After all, why wasn’t this documented anywhere else before, by Art Historians?
I was surprised myself.
I never expected the image to be so “clear”, once the charcoal highlighting revealed the “face” peering through the paper.
Initially, I had attempted to trace a “whole” face, but this first try did not look right. There was something about the nose and the mouth area that did not come together. I had thought it to be a more “abstract-looking” skull, not a “face”.
I then decided to start over, but this time tracing the right half and left half separately.
Once the halves were completed, I overlayed the right half over the left, and placed a third piece of tracing paper over previous two layers below. I then started using the Charcoal pen to try to create a “merged” image.
What started to emerge through the opaque paper was the bearded face that you see in the video.
The mouth area had not yet emerged, but I just kept tracing over the the fuzzy “lines” that peered through the paper.
With each stroke, the mouth area started to emerge. The lip area started to make sense. With more strokes, the lips got even more defined.
I started to ask whether this was Michelangelo’s face? Or was this his interpretation of the “face of God” or possibly the “Holy Spirit”? Were they representations of the “Father” and the “Son” of the Trinity?
It made more sense that he would encode the face of a “bearded” Jesus Christ. The central figure in the artwork was of a younger “beardless Jesus”.
It was as if Michelangelo had left a “hidden” message in a secret “TIME WINDOW”, perhaps hoping that this would be revealed in time.
But this is only Part I of this part of the Thought Experiment.
Please stay tuned for Part II.
