The artist Paul Gauguin asked the cosmos in his painting, “D’où Venons Nous Que Sommes Nous Où Allons Nous”
History remembers Gauguin asking… and, my cousin asked me…
“Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?”
Well… since you asked…
Oh gosh, I cannot rely on the ancestor tree and all the work we did on knowing the forebears it does not reach.
And, I cannot rely on the at-DNA admixture results as ambiguous as they can be.
But I can rely on my sixth sense.
We are everywhere we ever came from, we are all the stardust of all the places,
and we are there and always everywhere.
Look for me there, I will be the shiny one that is lost and confused.
I feel Gauguin turned to see the Mother Goddess in the worlds around him. He wanted to see his perceived peaceful mother-led world of joy in this simple life. Like ancient memories, the mother goddess is there for all of us to remember anytime we wish. Sometimes we need the hope of those ancient comforting memories. I am sure G-d does too – he also loved the Mother Goddess.
Hands up, Hands partly up, Hands down, and even arms out stretched. Gauguin’s arms and hands reach.
Where are we from? I know! I know! Everywhere. We are there.
I love my cousin, he makes me think. And he let’s me think anything I think (so does my Dai :-). Cousins, like hand in glove.
pause.
I was holding my breath to the reach the link… ‘public domain’ – YES!
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? D’ou Venons Nous / Que Sommes Nous / Où Allons Nous
Paul Gauguin Original Title:
Date: 1897; Punaauia, French Polynesia
Style: Post-Impressionism
Period: 2nd Tahiti period
Genre: allegorical painting
Media: oil, canvas
Tag: allegories-and-symbols, Tahiti
Location: Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), Boston, MA, US
Dimensions: 139.1 x 374.6 cm
https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-gauguin/where-do-we-come-from-what-are-we-where-are-we-going-1897
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paul_Gauguin,_1893-95
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paul_Gauguin
Marionetta Strung-Out 