Conversations with Van Gogh - Think Again

HS: I’ve been thinking about the room. I think there is something disorientating about it, which I believe is created by the perspective and the paintings movement but ultimately it draws you in. You can’t stop looking at it. I feel like I am inside the room when I look at it. It’s like it comes to life. But at the same time I think it’s very sterile. It’s a lonely room. It suggests an emptiness and there is something slightly clinical about it’s simple possessions for me. Which is interesting because you painted it before you took yourself to the asylum.

Silence

HS: Are you there?

Silence

HS: Am I on the right track?

Silence

HS: When I look at your work I see the movement in each picture and the almost dizziness in some of them and something in them conveys to me your madness. But I don’t know if it’s there or if I see it because I know you were mad.

Silence

HS: I think I am caught up in the madness because it interests me. I’m supposed to be capturing the style, pattern, composition, texture, colour and movement of your work and all I am getting is the madness of you.

Silence

HS: Did you mean to die?