Stare At You Like Art | 1.27.21
Funny thing about art, for any of you who have wandered through a gallery, sat and stared up at the wall with some piece of canvas and paint staring back at you, and simply gotten lost, is that it does not require understanding to bring forth appreciation, to give rise to awe. We forget this, forget that understanding or being an expert in something is never a requirement to admire and love the beauty behind it. We forget that people are this way, too, that those who wander into our lives, stare at the paint and canvas we call a life and get lost in it, don’t have to understand us to find us the same. We don’t have to fully understand them to see the beauty that shines through all they say, they do, the way they live. What a fundamental shift it can be, finally realizing this, finally putting down the treadmill-like pursuit of total understanding for the people we spend a life with, the acceptance and appreciation despite that lack.
I try my best to treat those in my life with this awe and wonder, and while sometimes the lack of understanding can cause confusion and that confusion can lead to momentary lapses in my ability to find the beauty, for the most part I think I’m pretty successful. I stare, in awe, and despite not understanding, I find so much beauty. In her, in them, in you.
Do you?
Stare at you like art,
that I do not understand
but find beautiful.
Haiku on Life by Tyler Knott Gregson
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Dear Tyler, I love your observations this morning on what/who is beautiful like art. What you say hits so much the Empath in me. I’ve studied art most of my life and taught art appreciation many years. While I have literally years on design, structure, color coordination etc., my true appreciation of art (and of people) is much more intuitive and moves my emotions. I find almost all people beautiful and fascinating because there is beauty in everyone including aspects of their character. Paintings like the Mona Lisa or Edvard Munch's “The Scream” are not beautiful or striking because of measurable data but through emotional appeal. I can get lost in them forever. The same happens to me with people. It passes understanding. Thank you for your astute observations.
Thank you for sharing this perspective. I kinda never thoughr about life this way.
On another note - I get my new TKG tattoo on Saturday!!