3.29.10 - Art

What is Art? We'll start off with a definition.

art – noun - the quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance.

Art can be anything, anything from music, paint, sculpting, or something I just happen to enjoy, photography.

Meet my little sister, Jada. She's in the 3rd grade. I'm not gonna lie, but she's pretty smart for her age. I wish I can say I'm smart for my age/grade haha. But anyways, I was walking into the master bedroom and I saw her taking out all of her painting supplies and preparing to paint something. I wasn't sure what she was going to paint, but I thought to myself that it would be a great opportunity to take some photos of her painting. She ended up writing my name.



Now lets get back on topic, art. Art has been here for a very long time, from cave drawings to the music we now play on our iPods. Art is a very beautiful thing, it can relieve stress, show ones emotions, or be a free-time "nothing to do" thing. A simple doodle on a napkin at the restaurant can probably tell you how a person is feeling at that moment. A simple tag on a school desk can inform you who's been here, or even the music someone is playing inside there car can describe their current mood.



Poetry, rhyming, spoken word, and music. All go hand in hand. It doesn't matter if its hip-hop or rock music you listen to. It's still a form of art. It maybe the tapping of pencils on your desk or a symphony on a piano. Simple rhymes put on paper, or an elaborate 16 bars inside your rhymebook. It's all a form of art.



Art can be a person's getaway, a person's exit, a person's other world. Some people can find it as gateways to a place where they wish to be. If singing takes away all the stress and pain from one's mind, I'm pretty sure that person will become hooked to it and will sing like no tomorrow. As for myself? Photography definitely makes me happy inside, each time I press that button and I hear the click of the shutter, it makes me feel great knowing that I just captured a moment that may last someone or myself forever.



Knowing the fact that my photographs out there are being used by people, no matter who they are. Friends or family, it makes me feel good because I have gave them a memory in a part of their lives. My photographs may seem like nothing to some of you, but they definitely mean something to me. Whether it's shooting a beautiful landscape or taking a simple portrait of myself with my tan walls. It will be something I will look back at in the future and say to myself, "damn, I remember when I took this."



Each time I get positive comments on my photos I feel like I have done something in my life that made someone happy, not necessarily "that" happy. But knowing that I impressed someone through a simple photo makes me feel good about myself. Simply because I can keep doing it over and over again. I may not be the best photographer out there in the world, but I am something to the world. I am a teenager with a DSLR to a few, a photo enthusiast to others, but I consider myself as a person that just loves to capture memorable moments.

Whichever way you perceive art, just keep in mind that art will ALWAYS be a beautiful thing. It can be a getaway to an imaginable world, a stress reliever, or a time killer. No matter what it will be, you will always be painting, writing, producting, shooting something that will be stuck with you for the rest of your life and generations to come. So take some time and go out there and create something. Something that will impress not just others, but yourself. Something that you will find memorable.

Give a the gift of art to a child. Give a child a paintbrush, piano, camera, or a pad and pencil. It will give them endless possibilities to change the world one way or the other. They will always create something that him/her and yourself would cherish forever. No matter what it is. If art keeps you grounded and busy, keep doing it. If it keeps you out of trouble, keep creating art. Because even if we're not alive on earth anymore, those pieces that you have created in the past will still be here.



Be easy.