Visión en fin al Camino 1934

Xul Solar made this odd little dreamscape, Visión en fin al Camino, with watercolor, and I imagine him hunched over it, letting the colors bleed softly into one another. Look at this light, like a spotlight, and how it falls on the figure ascending the stairs. It's theatrical and surreal, like a stage set, but it's also intensely personal. I bet Xul Solar was thinking about the journey of life, or maybe the journey of the artist, always striving, always climbing. The strange plant-like figures standing to attention might be the audience? The colors are muted, earthy, and I think this adds to the feeling of a dream, hazy and otherworldly. It's a small painting, inviting you to lean in close, to participate in its quiet strangeness, a shared space. And isn't that what art is, a conversation across time, across vision, a connection of souls?