Somebody's Reality

We find art everywhere.

Sometimes we notice the beauty of a painting...

Sometimes we don't even realize what we're seeing.

Recently I found myself sitting in a waiting room completely perplexed and conscious by a pair of paintings.

The details.

The scenery.

The temperature created by the colors.

One had a cold feeling as it tried to capture the emotions of an overcast day.

The other was warm as the sun vanished behind the clouds of a summer day.

Strange,

...I was looking at paint dried on cloth.

Sitting there in that waiting room something dawned on me and I began to wonder....

If I were sitting with the artist of these paintings, would they want me to be interested solely in the paint and the cloth???

I'm convinced artists are far more concerned with expressing their perspective of reality than they are about the objects of paint and cloth.

I'm convinced they see art as a portal revealing another way of seeing the world.

People have been doing this sort of thing for thousands of years.

Warm colors

Cold colors

Its not simply seeing the colors, its feelings the colors.

Art reflects reality through the eyes of the artist.

I'm convinced that artists prefer us to look beyond the art into something deeper.

Something bigger.

They don't want us to stop at the art.

They want us to look at the world from another angle.

To appreciate reality from another dimension.

Paintings, sculptures, photography, landscape, literature, music, ...

Look beyond

Look bigger

See the beauty behind the art.

See reality from another angle.

Maybe it will dawn on you like its dawning on me...

...we can be so numb sometimes.

Art is somebody's reality.

Rare People

Many of us often project an image that exaggerates our good qualities.

Many of us want people to think we're better then we really are.

Some would say this sort of trait is quite normal.

We front.

We act.

We pretend to take on characteristics of someone we aren't.

The thing is, the people closest to us notice this kind of activity.

They see how silly we can act.

They might even call us out for being "fake."

The people closest in our lives help keep us grounded.

But...

Rarely.

We come across someone who really IS the way they project.

See, usually the more we get to know people, the more flaws we see.

The more we get to know people, we see how they front and act.

We even come to love people for their flaws.

But what about those people who are opposite of this.

The people who we respect, look up to, and admire more and more as we get to know them.

The people who care more about integrity and character than they care about their "image."

These people are rare!

When we find these people, we should keep them close.

They make great friends

...the sort of friends that we want to have for the rest of our lives.

These people inspire us

...they lift us up

...they show us what it means to be real

...pure

...legit

...these people are solid.

We don't come across these people everyday.

When we do, we tend to notice.

This sort of thing stands out.

...my Dad....

He is one of these people!!!!

Thank You Dad!

I love you!