dr_knownothing

i am the happy owner of what may possibly be the worlds greatest puzzle... hieronymus bosch's the garden of earthly delights. i was so happy to be in madrid and go to the prado museum and see the whole big triptych depiction of heaven, earth and hell, all equally surreally fanstastic and overwhelming in strange details (and created in the 1400's!). but to have it as a puzzle, the image broken into thousands of seperate pieces, is so wonderful. in real life, it's hard to fully take in, there are so many things going on that are so out of this world you can barely comprehend it and more or less just get an impression of it. but now i can really explore the whole image and ponder why this angel is flying holding a fish or the mouse is eating a snake whole or this man is mooning these unicorns or what kind of person bosch must have been in the 1400's to include africans in his depiction of paradise, to show them making out with the whitefolk and everything. searching through all these surreal image fragments i feel like i'm there, standing next to one of the fantastical buildings that looks like it's made out of living tissue, a group of mermaids lounging nearby, feeding one another flowers. it's just so fascinating that he had a vision that was so radically different from his own world and anything produced by his artistic contemporaries. and that he was succesful with it.

and i have no job and am terribly bored but am easilly excited by small things (tiny puzzle pieces for now). wheeee!