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Showing posts with label creativity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label creativity. Show all posts

Thursday, August 12, 2010

The tail's end.

Some of you may recognize this picture, my attempt of capturing Butters-short for Buttercups-fetching/retrieving balls  in our cold lake. I almost erased this picture, not exactly sure what I was proving with it. It does not contain a full body, nor does it tell you about the medium/background.  It is a vignette, a moment in time, dislodged and uncontexted.

Most of our moments are like this. Artists/writers see these moments and are able to contemplate their uniqueness, their lines, the feelings they evoke. Artists can separate a moment, a feeling and shower their attention to it.

Sometimes, freezing a moment and framing it, helps us appreciate the fluidity of our lives, the impermanence of it all.

We have stopped life by art.

Art becomes a beautiful feeling captured.
And art makes life worth living.

THIS THEME and more are explored in The Elegance of the Hedgehog, by Muriel Barberry.
For a review of this book, visit ds at http://thirdstoreywindow.blogspot.com/

(p.s. blogger spelling tool questions odd things I do, such as the spelling of uncontexted. What would you do?)