Prompt courtesy of @LilMishas_Ghost

I see a door. the proper term is an entrance yet this seems erronious because I’d never enter here only exit. there is something subserviant here. a lesser entry.
I see green not as in a wealthy adornment of pricey stone but a color symbolising to me institution green – like that of a horror mental hospital or scary horror movie of whatever helpful or was it really harmful institution.
I see the shape with it’s intended line perfectly executed so this would be perfect in the timeless execution of the golden mean (1.68:1) the divine ratio. everything pretty as a picture, yet something is wrong…this feels WRONG.
I see the beauty of the lines and patterns pull my eye IN as if this says only look here, there is a stepping of perfect lines that now seem chiseled versus hormoniously eminating. like you can be one inch out of place and mare the seen.
research tells me this – this is the city palace in jaipur, northern india or is it the city gate, forgot- sue me. this palace and gate are constructed in the modern period of india- meaning during british involvement in india. from what I glean this place was made over a hundred years after the construction by a british architect. it is thus a fusion of style. the area is of course the classic take on what it means to the rest of the world to be indian. this can mean red hot foods of a spiced meat- when lets face it, everyone meeting any indian realize swiftly they are NOT that big on carnivorous food. but red hot chicken tikka, shammi kebabs, curry this, curry that,, everything authentic to another cultures tastes within a style food. translate this to the picture in front of me and it’s like taking the heart of the best there is to offer and making it a mockery – a rhinestone tackiness of affectation to style vs. that of true authentic purpose. in short the scene of this picture conjurs to me a poisoned view…one of an arrogant showiness versus flowing beauty. to me this screams fake and brittle.
now further research indicates this modern time in india shows that after a stagnation of growth which only is mollified by the later institution of religion. a different one- islam. islam took out the fight because it artificially allowed through religion itself or by well played administration for the area to grow again as attitudes were softened…subverted. or in otherwords, the traditions no longer had their meaning or foundations so the best thoughts were slowly perverted to a different use. a superficial use.
that thus is what I feel in this picture superficial affectation making an overall mockery of authentic beauty. a peacock strutting his stuff to get what he’s after. a lesser glory, one without mysticism and meaning. beauty not for innocent truth and existant but weilded to make a tacky show.
rhinestone adornment both initially pretty yet something disingenuous.
of course I don’t see olive/jade type greens like an easterner would to be a sign of wealth and prosperity, I see tham as sickening and withering with a history of nepherious show. in fact one element of the two that are considered jade is nephrite the base word of death.
-
I see before me a portion of a building well defined and adorned. I swiftly feel it fall apart or to be of a false beauty an affected incorrectly beauty. the deeper I look makes me disgusted at the mockery this picture represents.
look first at every executed element of style. the green stone, the crisp lines, the way everything draws the eye in versus radiating out, how this is not a main entrance nor an entrance at all but more of a pretty look at me exit, flaunted style yet not one of authentic value but affected value like that of a farce that this isn’t a palace but a make beleive amusement park gallery. how every aspect of adornment seems superficial yet the quick look sayse these are brutally massic wall of imposing size. this reminds me of a bad tattoo.
bad art.
poisoned perverted meanings.
splendor is to impress but if one tries to hard to impress it feels disingenuous. like that of someone second rate.
history shows this place was built as brittish infuence was beginning and at the height of the building make over was redone with the new influences poisonously incongruent tastes .
history shows raj’s to be second class to british citizens of note yet they’re rulers. this palace thus seems to be tacky like it’s supposed to be quaint like it supposed to be second rate by civilized? standards as it is backwoods. it is brittle and thus go ahead you either fit this life or you’re clashing. thiere thus as I say is a farsical feel to the place.
I weep to see this place. I smell a poison of show.
a FABRICATION of what could have been glory.