Arjun Vijay Prakash

i wasn’t planning to say any of this, it just came out… Claude Monet — Nymphéas, effet du soir. the lilies in the water are us. i want to start by saying this properly, because i never actually said it properly, i just said it in the middle of the night after you sent me a pillow meme and i just couldn’t hold it in. some meme saying: “this is me when i realize you sleep with someone called ‘pillow’ everyday instead of me.” i read it and laughed. then i read it again and then… i spilled all of me. so i wr...

on finding the proof that i existed. Claude Monet’s Houses of Parliament, Sunset (1903). i chose this artwork because it shows a perfect balance between two massive forces. the sky is full of orange light, which is from the sunset, but the river and the buildings are covered in blue and purple colours. this is what equilibrium looks like to me. the best thing is that neither one “takes over the painting”. they happen at the exact same rate. it perfectly matches how my best and worst days happened on the ...

the slow change between ice and water. Claude Monet’s The Thaw at Vétheuil (1880). i chose this painting because it shows exactly how those last few days felt. the river has been frozen solid for weeks, but the ice is finally starting to crack. it doesn’t melt all at once. it happens slowly, and then suddenly, the water starts moving again. that is the “melting point” for me. the small gestures from people didn’t fix the whole month. they just “cracked the ice.” it shows that things can “soften” when you...