Here is ‘Keti’s painting’ and her text:

   THE BLANK PAGE

What do you see ?

The Blank Page is a Magritte painting and we find it in the famous Magritte museum in Brussels.In this painting it’s night. How do you see that? Because there’s light in the windows of the houses and the moon is shining. I see also the leaves without branches next to the moon.

What do you feel ?

When I observe this painting, I see the contrast. I have the feeling that Magritte wants to represent a human being. How could this moon which is shining with the nice blue color in the night and the houses which are dark be a representation of human? I said that the light which is shining shows that there’s life, a presence. I think that although these houses are dark there’s life in them. The moon is there to shine through the darkness and the leaves show that there’s life too.

“Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see” said Magritte. The moon cannot be in the same position as the leaves. It’s supposed to be above all things. As it’s the same position as the leaves it symbolizes that the moon equals life.

Make a story

In his bedroom at midnight as he couldn’t sleep, he saw the reflexion about everybody in this world. In our life there are dark periods it means the night and the darkness in this painting but we can also have the light periods in our lives which are represented by the moon and the leaves.

There’s hope for our lives. Why do I say that? The title doesn’t reflect reality. When something is blank there’s nothing. So, we can put something in it to create life.