Exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art, “Kai Althoff: and then leave me to the common swifts (und dann uberlasst mich den mauerseglern)”, features Althoff’s artworks that was created throughout his artistic career. Curated an designed by himself, this exhibition features a variety of artworks ranging from drawings, paintings, photographs, mannequins, antiques, figurines and shoes.

Identified as a person with little to no interest in art, my first visit to an art exhibition was met with a mixed-feeling. I was looking at the artworks with such amazement but what’s the meaning behind them? Is there even a deeper meaning to them?

One section of the room, for example, showcase a dirty piles of luggage and broken ceramic pieces spilling out of old suitcases. What’s the purpose of this artworks?

As I navigate my way through the maze, one drawing did caught my attention. It was an untitled (2016) black and white sketch of a boy in his early twenties standing in a field of grass. It wasn’t particularly elaborate as the other artworks in the exhibition. But something about this boy attracts me to him….

How was Giribala able to find the courage to escape her abusive relationship with her husband and start a new life for herself given the circumstances she was in?

The reasoning as to why her mother constantly accused her of being a “slut” (even thought she is not) because the mother had engaged in an illicit affairs in the past and tried to prevent the same thing from happening to her daughter?

On the back of the book, a synopsis was given about the plot of the story.

It said, “The devastating final work by Brazil’s greatest modern writer, The Hour of the Star tells the haunting tale of Macabea, a typist who lives in the slums of Rio – underfed, sickly, and unloved, yet inwardly free.

Was Macabea really “free”?

What is Rodrigo S.M trying to achieve by writing about this girl?

Why is it only after the death of his father did he see his father in a different light?

How did Freud came into the conclusion that when the child enters a second sexual stage they will ponders sexual scenarios where he brings his other (who is the subject if the most intense sexual curiosity) into situations of secret infidelity and into secret love affairs?

In addition, Freud claimed that this process of growing up was far more prevalent in boys compared to girls. He dismissed it as “the imagination of girls apt to show itself much weaker.”

Clarissa once described her feeling for Sally as a match that burns in a crocus. This imagery of her love with Sally was so intense that I couldn’t help but wonder why did she ended up marrying Richard but not Sally?

It’s going to be a bad day. She just know it. As Jo Yee makes her way towards her bus stop at 23rd Ave, she was met with the cold autumn breeze. When the Q65 (Limited Jamaica LIRR) bus finally came, she sighed in relief. “Finally!!! Warmth!!!”, said Jo Yee. Just like Jo Yee, Richard Longbottom was relief by the sight of the incoming bus. As he stares at Jo Yee, he thought what a puny child she is. “She probably won’t said anything if I cut right in front of her”, thought Richard. Just like that, Richard made his way into the bus by forcing himself through the entrance. “Urghh!!”, thought Jo Yee. What a day to be alive! What a drag! As she angrily makes her way to Baruch College.

In this novel, Mrs. Dalloway, it was mentioned several times that Mrs. Dalloway suffered from an illness. But what can that illness be? Mrs. Dalloway shows no sign of being ill. Can the illness be related to her sexuality?