When Words quit, I appear

“Am I the soul of the organic body down there lying whose hands painted me on the wall?”

-Art

Art exist from early days of Human beings from cave paintings to today’s modern art, they lived side by side with us even before words were created. They started as a form of expressing things to each other with actions and sounds. As early humans didn’t have a save button to save the file to disk, they stored the actions and sounds as pictorial representation in rocks and caves. We can clearly see that in Egyptian hieroglyphs. Once they started getting the feel of picture and painting, they started to enjoy it giving way for some cultural rain to shower

Am not a scientific or research person, but its my belief that our DNA is a storage medium, which stores actions done repeatedly over time and that’s how character and traits develop. And it is alterable but with a strong will to change. Lets not deviate over there and lets get back to this blog…

Art in play…

Paintings and art can really alter your mind and thoughts. The Art you see here is not really a cave painting, but a Microsoft Paint’s spray painting. But our mind can easily give a taste of cave painting and take us to the early days on seeing this. Now lets go to the sea with coconut trees down below:

The picture here is not really a good depiction of a sea with coconut tree, but our mind connects the missing dots and pixels to give us this representation. Lets take another example by going to the desert

This one tells us it is a night in the desert and some traveler is taking rest in his tent illuminated with oil lamp. Clearly, he is using a camel for travelling and he found a place with date trees to spend the cold night.

In today’s modern world we have words to express almost everything. But what do we do with words? we collect and try to create a picture of what is told to us in our mind and try to relate it. That’s how we listen and understand. Its a picture to picture comparison. So the most fundamental form of word is a picture, which is a form of painting.

Take any word and go down on its meaning until you cannot find a word to describe it and the end will be a picture or an action which is a picture in your mind. When there are no more words, just art exist

Until today there are expressions which cannot be really expressed with words and situations that cannot be expressed (we just say, I got this situation) and it is getting complex to feel what some one is going through without having an understanding or words to describe it properly. Most of them turn towards Art to express their feeling, they pour down their soul on it as a snapshot of themselves recorded so far in their DNA and gets a satisfaction from it when people try to interpret and understands it. For the artist it is another quality time digested expressing their feeling.

Art really can be a soul cleaning activity as it sprinkles out good vibes and energies for those surrounding it and the one who paints it. It rewires the brain and takes us to see things we never realized, yet it was so near to us. It shapes the person, it shapes the mind, it shapes the world, it propagates peace. Lets Art, celebrate Art and live Artfully.