My wife had opened my mind/heart/eyes to art.
Think for minute, heck maybe a day or two, about the greatest artist of all time?
God.
Yeah just look around you right now at His creation. If you are/can see outside what do you notice? I see firsthand as I am writing a remarkable light blue sky dotted with pillowy white clouds, with just a hint of gray. The trees visible from my view are two different winter trees. Aspens with their cotton ball white bark and barren of leaves, with a Colorado Blue Spruce to the right showing off that distinctive dark green/blue color. I can also still see the green lawn of my neighbor accented with the unmelted snow from earlier this week.
All this from a view inside looking out as I sit behind my desk.
No wait, the sun just went behind a cloud and well you know everything changed, or that difference a single shift in time can bring.
When was the last time you actually stopped what you were doing, texting on your phone (as you walk head held down) and just looked at the magnificence in front of your eyes?
Or when was the last time you swept your hand across a texture that well let's say intrigued you?
Last time we were in Hawaii I asked my brother in law to stop and pull off the road. I saw a pine tree that I wanted to feel, yes feel. I had never seen this type of tree before and well sight, touch and smell all came together in an art form. A pine tree...
All of our senses need to be used to understand and appreciate art, it is not just a picture on the wall to look at.
It can be as simple as sitting in the neighborhood park on a bench with my wife at twilight. We take in the remarkable view we have of the sky and the front range as the sun starts to set. All on a spectacular evening during a mild fall day.
The sky and clouds actually looked like the surf hitting the beach. Yes, with a type of inlet swooping around to the left...
Guess you had to be there, the colors were magnificent.
This was a gift from God for us together as we appreciated His art. As the sun settled behind the mountains and the light started to fade, He sent us an owl who flew over us calling out "hoo hoo." We knew that this was our art appreciation moment for the day/month/year.
True story.
As I looked at the board and ran my hand over the surface I started to realize that I was in awe. There in front of me was a person's artistic vision put down through mosaic glass on a snowboard. Yeah, when was the last time you fixed your eyes upon and felt artwork like this? Maybe never?
The whole board is covered with individual pieces of glass. Each individual piece combines to make an image from the artist's mind. All of this was done from her mind's eye, there were no preliminary drawings made.
Think about this; the artist envisioned, the artist crafted the glass and the artist created a spectacular image on a snowboard. Wow!
This artist has also done this type of artwork on skis, picture frames and tabletops.
Create a memory.
Heck, if you can buy it, hang the piece on the wall and then appreciate it every time you experience the artwork...
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