Blue Girl With Wine

Tim Burton's "Blue Girl With Wine" (2009) which is now in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City is a very interesting piece. The girl has a tattoo of a heart on her left arm. The girl also has stitches all over her body conveying the idea that she is broken inside. Also on the table you see a glass of wine and a wine bottle with a symbol on it representing poison or death. Now what does that tattoo represent. It may represent love, or lack of it. So is this girl broken inside because she is in love, or because she has not found love. Furthermore why is she trying to do harm to herself when she is already feeling so much pain. Does the wine make her feel happy temporarily, or does it make her feel worse. The look on her face would make you believe that she does not seem happy. So maybe she has lost all hope, and that is why she is killing herself by drinking wine. Maybe she is already so broken inside that she feels impervious to pain. Or she could be feeling so much pain that she wants it all to come to an end? There are a lot of questions in this piece that I don't have the answer to. It really makes you ponder, but also makes you aware of the ambiguity that exists in this piece. You can look at this piece for weeks and still not know exactly what is being said. That to me is artwork.