All Journeys Start Somewhere

Journeys are adventures people ignite that do not only include extravagant ones, but they also include the ones encountered in everyday life.  Every day you step out your door, you are embarking on a new journey.  All journeys start somewhere.

Most recently, my professor has introduced me to a new way of thinking about and viewing art.  Not only that, but also what exactly art is.  Is it just paintings, drawings, pictures, statues?  Or is it everything you see?  The blanket you are covered in... the rug in the middle of your floor... the trees in your backyard... the stars in the night sky.  My journey begins, and ends, in and around my home.

To me, everything is art.  Everything has its own design, its own voice, and to me that is what makes it art.  The blanket I am using right now was a direct result of my grandmother, who sews us grandkids special blankets for Christmas.  She knows I am a student of art as she was, so mine was created haphazardly, delicately, dangerously, as only one with a creative eye could appreciate.  The rug in the middle of my floor matches perfectly with the walls in my house, designed to pull the colors together in one single location.  Separately, having a green wall, a tan wall, and a darker red-brown wall would seem scattered and as if it had no theme.  The rug serves that purpose--the one that brings each part to become a whole, each becoming a part of the other.  The trees in my backyard were planted along a property line.  Each branch was placed a certain way in order to make those trees look so magnificent.  Each branch, currently covered in ice and snow, hold their own in making the trees intimidatingly tall and ominous together, as one.  Finally, the stars.  Every time there is a meteor shower, my grandmother comes over at midnight to watch the sky with my until the wee hours of the morning.  As I lay and count the 'stars' shooting across the dark expanse of sky, my grandmother reads me the tales behind just how certain constellations came to be.  Cassieopia and King Cephus has been one of my favorites.  Each and every one of the stars in the sky has a story.. each and every star was placed just so in order to form a large, beautiful picture for us as humans to interpret as we please.

That's the beauty of art.  It is everywhere you look, and you don't even have to search for long.  Just look up from the computer screen and you are bound to find something that has value, something that has a point and a purpose.  Art brings people together on a common journey, publicly known as life.