Even though a lot of things has happened lately, I remember how beautiful and rich my life is every day. I’m grateful for everything beautiful and abundant, and I much enjoy to focus on all the good things in life rather than on the bad. I started to take my camera with me again, and took some images while on twilight walks last week to capture some of the beauty surrounding me:
I want to do this way more often.
Those colors!
We’d been at the Baltic Sea for a day, that’s the top row images plus the lantern. God, I love those colors! All the blues and greys and greens during the evening hours… Not only in my artworks but also in the rest of my life, color is vital! I shot the other images for their colors and textures mainly, but also because of the objects and the situations I found them in.
In art school I was often taught that art is not about the beauty, and that form follows function (or in this case, content). But I more and more understand that I am hungry for beauty, and that I don’t want to care about what people in art school once said. I need beautiful things around me. Sometimes I find beauty and grace in things that look ugly at first sight… And I am able to transform them into something beautiful sooner or later, that’s my secret super power.
A few months ago I found this quote by Amanda Palmer that kept spinning in my head for while:
once you’ve shared your art & it’s resonated with a single person, it’s no longer about you. once you share it,it is about US. (source: http://amandapalmer.tumblr.com/post/51700498843/connecting-the-dots-dealing-with-criticism-the)
I hope those images are somehow resonating with your life as well? ‘Us’ is so much more important than just ‘I’.
Much internet love to you!
Jessica
Lovely. You. And your art.
And you and your comments! ;)