A Rainstorm at Sea
7:00 AM |
| Joseph Mallord William Turner, A Rainstorm at Sea, 1822 |
By KATHERINE GRABOWSKY
To my sleep-deprived sister,
Annie,
I gift you Turner’s A
Rainstorm at Sea to liven up your deteriorating Naismith dorm room wall. This
painting can hang right above your mini refrigerator and right below your way-too-sparkly
“Kappa Alpha Theta” sign. Or maybe, this can lie above your desk, so it is the
last thing you see every night before you reside to sleep at 3 a.m. in typical
college fashion. I gift you this painting to give you that last spark of
motivation during your college years filled with projects, papers and tests.
When that Chai Tea Latte just isn’t doing the trick, and you have yet to figure
out how the heck you find the acidity to titration all the while attempting to
finish the paper due tomorrow, simply look into this Turner painting and I hope
you feel at peace. This is for those moments when you feel as if you’re
drowning in that dark, empty water where Turner showed no mercy to color and painted
with stark black. You must simply take a deep breath and appreciate the pinks
and the blues and the yellows.
Don’t let yourself fall into
the unbounded cycle of procrastination due to self-pity and stress, and instead,
rise above. The rain may seem endless, and you may feel as though surely you
will never pass your finals and
graduate, but I can assure you, every storm passes. So too, will your stress.
Soon enough, you will be on break, sleeping more than 3 hours a night, and
relying on anything other than just Costco-brand Keurig cups, and you will be okay. Don’t
fret, and dive into Turner.
Let him takes you places your
math homework can’t. Let him guide you through your hours and hours of work and
help you make it out the other side with yes, coffee-stained clothing, tangled
hair and bags under your eyes, but alive, nonetheless. Annie, I gift you this
painting to help you push through the rainstorms that you have definitely
experienced and will inevitably face more of during your time at KU. Let Turner’s
colors overtake you, and his emotions move you.
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