I Wish We Had A Lot Of Museums

In the Philippines, we have lots of malls. Malls are sprouting like seedlings everywhere. It's not like it's bad. It shows that people are spending money, which could actually be good for the economy (if you look at it that way).

We have very few parks and museums though. Those are two places where it's good to be after a tough day, on a date or just to clear our head out.

Museums are places where we could be inspired, brought back to the past, be reminded of beauty in a chaotic, wicked world.

The star in most museums all around the world are paintings. There are breathtaking works, and then there are abstract works which make you think hmm I could have done that-- splattered random paint all over the canvas, that is.

My most favorite painter is Vincent Van Gogh, for the most part, because of his story. The anxiety is there. You can feel it emanating from his works.

The first one I've ever seen was his work entitled Roses. This picture I took of it (from the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo) doesn't give the painting justice, but I'll post anyway just because I was so happy I couldn't contain it when I took this photo!

It's like being a Beatles fan and seeing Paul perform live onstage. O_O

Here's a Van Gogh lithograph I'd like to see in real life. It's called At Eternity's Gate which was eventually painted two months before Van Gogh shot himself.

(Photo not mine)

Sigh sigh! I wish we had more accessible museums here in the Philippines where we could just randomly go at the end of one stressful day.

I hope they'd build more parks too.

Danne