The Wanderer

Looking forward to the year ahead, there are many mixed feelings and thoughts. Senior year is both exciting and scary, happy and sad, all at once. The man in the painting we viewed in class today is looking out at a landscape and obviously is deep in thought. I'd like to know what he is thinking about; whether he is puzzled or feeling as though he's conquered the world. In either case, the painting relates to many viewers because they can put themselves in the man's position; everyone in some point or another is proud or confused, and depending on what's going on in a person's life at the time of seeing the painting, their perceptions of the man's position will differ. For me it has gone between a prideful man and a concentrated one. In thinking about certain things I feel like the man is wise and just soaking it all in; looking at it from other perspectives I feel like he is pondering something of great importance in his life.