Jiang treats the Mona Lisa's tracking gaze as evidence of artistic aura: wherever the viewer stands, the painting keeps projecting a persistent presence that cannot simply be left behind.
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"Probably talking about the fact that wherever you are in the room she looks at you."
"It's really weird. Do you guys like experience it? Yeah. When you walk around her eyes follow you. They track you. It's really weird...."
"You really feel it because like wherever you are in the room the aura is here. And you can just like turn your back..."
"...sun revives cold limbs that night made numb so did my gaze lose in her tongue and then in little time set her contorted..."
"...briefly. The offense of envy was not committed often by their gaze. I fear much more the punishment below. My soul is anxious, in..."
"...as huge as this one, and even more ferocious in his gaze. No earthquake ever was so violent when called to shake a tower..."
"...his home a cave among white marbles from which he could gaze at stars and sea with unimpeded view and she covers up her..."
"then his straight gaze grew twisted and awry he looked at me a while then bent his heads he fell as low as all..."
"...own smile, and movements grazed with every dignity. By now my gaze had taken in the whole of paradise, its form in general, but..."
"...light of the world with such affection that he made mine gaze still more ardently."
"...one simple semblance was in the living light at which I gaze, for it is always what it was before."
"...serve in the great task. So spoke my lady, but her gaze was not to be diverted from its steadfastness, not after or before..."
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