Words Grayness and Colored Bodies

The scene is a classroom, and the place is a rural area. The picture is divided in two. Half of the picture is covered by the flat gray surface of the blackboard, and in the lower half, we see torsos. The torso of a young boy seems to be writing on the board, and the torsos of men, women, or boys and girls behind him seem to be watching him write. The blackboard half does not let us see faces or heads. The weight of the words blocks the view, and the words seem to be a barrier to awareness.

We do not see the boy’s words, nor do the tangled words and numbers behind the board convey any clear meaning. Among the gray above and the brown below, spots of color shine, but still they leave us suspended. Neither the gray of the board nor the colored bodies lead us to clarity. The messy overlapping of words and the tight grouping of colored bodies do not open any horizon. Perhaps the chalk dust scattered on the worn carpet speaks the clearest. They are the remnants of bodies and words.