Life and Art

It’s messy because
there is no black and white,
not even gray,

but a cacophony of colors,
constantly mixing, blending,
layering one on the other

each new layer an adventure
that can lead to the perfect painting
or

something so wrong,
so flawed,
so damaged

that you are tempted to throw it away
instead of setting it on the easel,
and staring hard and long at your failure

until you see beyond it, until
you learn to see like God, until
you grasp at last the glorious lesson

of the beauty behind the scars.

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The photograph was taken a couple of weeks ago after I was done painting a pair of watercolors. You can click on it for a larger version.

Tom