After walking around practically all of the 5th floor of MoMA, I came across this painting among a series of three paintings by Umberto Boccioni named States of Mind. This was the second in series, called whose who go. This painting caught my attention because it was dark in real life, and the faces initially were not very visible until I looked a but harder.

I feel like this painting reflects so much of people’s lives, especially “those who go” and leave your life. When someone leaves someone else’s life, no matter how happy you may feel like you may be, I feel like there is still that sense of unhappiness and void in you. I left so many people, and so many have left my life, and honestly when i think about it those times seem dark to me and those are often times I don’t like to remember. (Its a different story if two people just slowly drifted apart over time, I’m referring to when you get into a fight or you are so fed up with someone that they abruptly leave your life.)

This painting is very mystical. Along with it being in the dark, it portrays heavy rainfall. Usually in heavy rainfall, it becomes very difficult to see where things are doing and you are often steered to an alternate angle, even if you are trying to just walk in a straight path. The faces in this painting seem hazy, blurred by the rain, and also they express glum emotions. From the looks of it, above the portraits near the center of the board, it seems as though a mosaic ship was painted on, with white/gray clouds above it. If that’s the case, the painting could be of heavy rain on a oceanic journey, with high wild tides, with passengers (who’s faces are portrayed). These passengers could have left and escaped from something, untold, and now because of the high rides and rough sea, the passengers have officially left… earth.”Those who go”.