Diálogos Transdisciplinares em Girl with a Pearl Earring: a Arte ...

“... I heard on of the loose floor tiles in the studio clink. I froze. He had never
asked that of me. I turned around, my hands still in my hair. He stood on the
threshold, gazing at me. I lowered my hands. My hair fell in waves over my
shoulders, brown like fields in the autumn. No one ever saw it but me. …
‘Your hair,’ he said. He was no longer angry. At lost he let me go with his eyes”
(207-208).
Isso causa um profundo impacto em Griet, que reflete:
“Now that he had seen my hair, now that he had seen me revealed, I no longer
Felt I had something precious to hide and keep to myself. I could be freer, if not
with him, then with someone else. It no longer mattered what I did and did not
do” (208).
Naquela noite, Griet permite que Pieter, o filho do açougueiro e seu futuro
marido, faça sexo com ela, mas a recordação dos seus cabelos soltos, sinaliza que
ela afinal já havia perdido sua virgindade para Vermeer, o homem que ela ama:
“...He gave me pain, but when I remembered my hair loose around my shoulders
in the studio, I felt something like pleasure too” (208).
No entanto, porque no seu íntimo compreende a visão do artista, submete-se a
todas as suas exigências, pelo amor do artista e da sua obra, entregando-se
incondicionalmente:
“ ‘I want to see you wear the earring.’ … ‘But you know what will happen then,
sir.’… ‘I know the painting will be complete.’ … You will ruin me. …
‘But, sir,’ I said, ‘My ear is not pierced.’ … ‘Well, then, you will need to take of
that.’ … ‘Lick your lips, Griet.’ …I licked my lips. … ‘Leave your mouth
open.’ … I was so surprised by this request that my mouth remained open of
its own will. I blinked back tears. Virtuous women mouths did not open their
in paintings. It was as if he had been in the alley with Pieter and me. You have
ruined me, I thought. I licked my lips again. … ‘Good.’ he said” (209-210).
Ao furar suas orelhas, suportando todo o sofrimento, Griet desempenha aqui o ato
definitivo para tornar-se uma mulher na sua época – expõe sua sensualidade em
favor da união com um homem. No seu caso, a união é através da pintura, que de
certo modo perpetua por intermédio da sua beleza, os sentimentos e desejos
íntimos de Griet em relação a Vermeer, recriando um momento de ligação de
parte a parte. Uma intercessão de sedução – da arte, pela arte.