25. anyone

It’s true—art is essential. It’s easy to forget how essential until you find yourself after a full year finally, finally standing in front of a painting. No photograph can replicate the feeling of standing so close to a painting that brushstrokes are all that fills your periphery. Some days I can feel the weight of all the lives left unlived, clamoring loudly, demanding to be given a chance. Maybe that’s why art makes me feel so at home. How delightfully anonymous you can become in a gallery, how easily you can shed the weights of your life and become transformed by the genius of those before you. Standing in front of a painting or photograph or textile or ceramic or mural you could be…anyone.

(Nov. 10)