/// museum n8: rijksmuseum

last n8 we went to museum n8 in amsterdam, the rijksmuseum at night is still the same as it was in the daytime, but i couldn't resist seeing the nightwatch at night, and staring at meisje face to face again. i think she knows what i am feeling. we took our time looking for the slashes on the canvas, right by the dog and right by his leg, testimonies to history and crazed-filled minds.

i also said hello to the skaters on ice, an old friend. i saw that the guy peeing and pooping were still in their place, and of course the happy couple was still there, still holding hands. i'll see them again soon enough.

i saw vermeer's maids again, quietly sitting by the shadows. i saw the ships and people from the golden age, gliding. and a new favorite: a magritte-like painting of herengracht during the 1700's. and as always, we wondered how it was like living then. m was convinced that they also thought about the same things, that people even then, had the same issues (depression haha). i don't know.

what's even more interesting was what m brought up: why paintings are drawn so differently then. why we have the saying "it's like a painting". did people see the world in such a different way? or did they really look different?

and how i thought that someday in the future, it will be like that for us too. we will be in paintings and a girl like me and a boy like m would be standing by a picture of us in the rijksmuseum and ogle in wonder as they imagined how it was like living in the year 2010. like a painting.