I went to Arts Walk in Riverside tonight. I checked and I didn't need a passport. I comforted myself by knowing I have a good ear for other languages. I took art appreciation in college for heaven's sake. And I know just enough about color, design, lighting, symbolism and abstract expression to be, well, to be somewhat dangerous.
Whenever I have gone to Arts Walk in the past I have always felt the rush of creative energies. There is something in the air when artists gather. My senses become heightened. I actually remeber when I thought I could live the life of an artist. I used to believe I could exist quite comfortably in a fifth story walk up garret on the left bank of Paris. Beret optional. A free spirit living expressly for the sake of expression.
I snapped the above picture with my cell phone. Impromtu found art. The sun was low in the sky shining through this stained glass window. I thought that this was a moment that would not come again. The color would never be the same and no one else would capture this moment. This moment was a one time thing. And that, I believe, is what art is. A moment in time captured and shared...yet not alike in experience for those who view it.
That is why I love Arts Walk. Like going to museums or theatre or concerts or whatever, it is all in the experience and the experience is completely unique to the individual. The essence of the art form transcends the moment, the past and the future. I love to see the artists and the patrons and the homeless and the street people and the security guards all, the sprectrums of humanity, and feeling the observer, connected yet alien among them, I walk.
I do believe our environment affects us. We need to surround ourselves with things that inspire us and reflect us and comfort us and most of all, challenge us. The arts are who we are and we are the arts. So there you have it. And just think, this blog would never have been had I not gone to the Arts Walk tonight! See, I do get something out of being amongst the arts.
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