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The Starry Night (1889)

Secretly Incredibly Fascinating

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I'm Paying You to Just Be in My Garden to Show Off My Victorian Richness

There's a cognitive psychology set of theories and explanation for it, but it's basically that there's two things going on at once. And so because the colors and the luminance are blending and not blending, it just ends up feeling like motion. I'm paying you to just be in my garden to show off my Victorian richness. Just like you amble around. All right. We've done that ugly painting. It looks like it's moving. You idiot. Cypress bushes don't move that much. Cool. Does that or you could be like a, like a front lawn, like, gnome for like a rich Victorian person? They're like, I have people in my

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