i am a painting: i watch time go by

"I don’t have thoughts of my own, I am an object, I am a painting with no supposed thoughts or emotions, I simply watch time go by."

Odalisque in Red Trousers, Henri Matisse

“If I still write it’s because I have nothing better to do in the world while I wait for death.” Hour of the star, Clarice Lispector

— Part I:

A painting, what is it? Paint painted by the painter, paint painted by the artist with talented hands, fre…