"we know the way wheat holds to the earth __ pulls you closer to life __
& we also know that painting like language is home."
_The Harvesters, 1565 - Pieter Bruegel the Elder
(Netherlandish, active by 1551, died 1569) _ Oil on wood . Metropolitan Museum, NYC.
"For the longest time, we spent our lunch hour at the Metropolitan Museum,
feeding our bread to birds outside, on the roof-top . while, "the harvesters" were
eating their lunch. if you ever meet Bruegel's harvesters, one day in passing,
walking the endless rooms of the museum. take your time, stop by and say hello.
look for the small woman__ in the center of the picture__ with her brown, round, hat.
she's looking straight at you, eating a slice of bread. Had she made the bread
herself? we'd always hope for a taste of it . walking in the painting, sitting down
next to her and chat ! how is the weather, the kids? may be then, who knows__
would she have shared a slice of her bread with us?"
_ while the world in Copenhagen talks about the future of our planet.
Bruegel's harvesters are still here , to remind us, that on a warm day of
Summer__ in the Netherlands __ the wheat harvest was plentiful."
__ note of an artist: (c) blt
