The Chick With the Cool Earring
The girl with the pearl earring was staring back at me and all I could do was let out a silent fart out of excitement and pure bliss. Crowded around her were people from every nook and cranny of Japan led by a deranged woman busily pointing out the cracks on the surface of the painting. I swear somebody said something like sashimi or sushi.
We were at the Mauritshuis in The Hague where the Girl With the Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer (also called the Mona Lisa of the North…I mean the painting, not Vermeer) was being housed temporarily for an exhibit of Vermeeer’s works while he was in Austria. He was originally from Delft, a quaint little town bombarded these days by noisy tourists.
I was expecting a huge wall of a face to stare back at me. But after minutes of milling around the circle of the Japanese tourists, I was surprised to see the 40 x 46 cm masterpiece. I dunno. There was something in that pic. Too bad the hype is on Mona Lisa and the movie with Colin Firth and Scarlett Johansson did not do much publicity for the painting. Well, I guess it doesnt need any publicity.
Dunno what to say, really. So I just glued her on my desktop.
