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| "Looky" Hugo Simberg (1885) |
Kimmo Huosionmaa
Do you remember the series ”X-files”? There is often a theme, of ”Black oil”. An alien organism, what transforms the people as an alien. That black oil was group the mushroom-like neurons, what was slipped in the human body, and take it under control. This theme of ”Black oil” is also in many portraits, what are painted in Finnish national romantic era. The "Black oil" symbolizes also the bad feelings and thoughts, what fills the head of the person, and we must say that thoughts are the operating system of human being. They are actually, what the people really are, and they are things that control our behavior.
That theme is in the Hugo Simberg's portrait ”Looky”, from our national gallery. In some cases the investigator makes this painting look like little bit humorist. Somebody seems in this painting a character, what sits on the anthill, and waits for something. But the most modern rendition of this painting would be that the droplets of ”Black oil” are moving on the person's skin, and looks for change, to slip in the body. In that painting is the character, what looks like the little bit different than a normal person, and maybe Simberg mentioned, that this character is forced to do, what he does. And if somebody forces another person sit in the anthill in the real world that causes very much hate in the person's mind. That person wants to revenge things, what is done to him.
In this case, the black oil might mean the bad thoughts, what is easily take control of the human mind, if a person faces troubles in the life. The symbolism of the ”Black oil” is sometimes very symbolic. It is that if the person only thinks bad things, and only thing what are talking in that social circle is negative, the negative things would change the person's mind negative.
Bad feeling and bad memories, what are the combination of negative friendships transfer ourselves, negative persons. If our mind is full of hate, and we are looking always the revenge, we will transform the people who we don't want to be. We don't want to be bad, is always the normal way to think. But if the person is full of hate, would this person transform the thing, who hates other people.
The hate is normal in people mind. But when we are thinking about this thing, we don't have to cover that thing. If the hate doesn't erupt, it would stay in our mind. And that is the dangerous thing because it fills our mind. And this would cause the terrible situation. But when we are handling hate, we sometimes face the thing, that we would let it erupt. The traditional way to let the hate erupting is to go to Forrest, take an ax and spill some trees. When that thing is done in many times, that would make the mind free from hate.
