Inspiration Fridays! Can you make World Art Day every day?
Can you make World Art Day every day?
Who thought to set aside just one day a year for art? One day feels like a bit of a tepid start.
“Art is not about itself, but the attention we bring to it.” – Marcel Duchamp
Everyday is art. Everything is art. It’s our choice to make it so.
Art is the seed. Our communities spring from that seed and the blossoms become our culture. Arts fallen petals tell the story of our history.
I want to spend every moment lost in my creativity. Everything else feels like a generic waste of time. The electricity generated by the discovery of a new combination of colors loads me up with endorphins. That manic thrill can be rudely uprooted (and quite regularly) by an unwelcome series of brain-numbing phone calls. Why am I drawing such a hard line between pleasure and pain? Both the colors and calls are part of the whole. It’s all part of the deal.
If life is anything, it is balance. That’s where the beauty of all of this art stuff lives. It lives in contrast. Inspiration and perspiration. Elation and frustration. Creative chaos and iPhone updates.
Gabriel Mark Lipper – Flight or Fancy – oil on panel – 18″x18″
If we find ourselves setting aside one day a year to celebrate the power and beauty of art, our equilibrium may be a bit off. We may be struggling to fully understand the potential that we have for creativity in our lives every day.
Art isn’t just about masterpieces and museums. There is an art to be found in the managing of our calendars and the careful construction of our children’s lunches. There is an art in dealing with pain. There is an art to making the bed. As artists let’s remember to celebrate the thrill of the mundane.
What’s your unartsy art?
How do you find art when it’s not there?
Can you make World Art Day every day?