OverDressed for Life

Pandora’s Box, 1951. By Rene Magritte.

The presence of the rose next to the stroller signifies that wherever man’s destiny leads him, he is always protected by an element of beauty. 

Rene Magritte (1898-1967), Belgium artist.

I’m drawn to this painting for so many reasons: the hat, the cobblestone road, the hazy feel to the environment, the European scene. But most of all the rose as companion and I like Magritte’s thought that beauty is omnipresent. Something to remember in our current mixed-up, dark world.