You laugh.
Well, it is. To start off, the photograph is one of the modern world's most basic forms of art. How cool is the kind of technology that can take our three-dimensional world and, with the press of a button, put it on a screen or print it on a piece of paper? That wasn't a trick question. It's really cool.
Or how about needlepoint, knitting, sewing, leather working, woodcarving, pottery, metal working, architecture, writing, and advertisement? Things that are needed and useful are sometimes the most satisfying to art-i-fy. The human race, fallen as it is, cannot help but imitate our creator... by creating.
Side note: this reminds me of something my piano teacher once said. She said that back in the day, before technology and rushing and schedules, if something was worth looking at, it was worth making beautiful. I don't know if that's true in every circumstance, but it parallels my own core instinct to make things beautiful.
And, of course, painting! You knew it was coming.
Hmmm, I kind of got a little off topic.
Today, I painted Olivia as a sample for my idea. And you know what was great? I could be really particular about her face and pretty dress, because I wanted to. And I could add some stuff and be a little bit more abstract with other things, because I wanted to. And sure, the final product has a really random resemblance to the photo (weird), but that doesn't make it any less mine.
It's cool to think that God, in essence, paints all of us. Or knits us together, as it says in Psalms. (As a knitter, I can identify with that. Can you even imagine what size double-pointed needle it takes to knit capillaries?) It's cool to think that we are His art, and we are made how we are because that's how He wanted us.
Wow, all I was planning to do was post a picture and say "art is really cool."
Then I lost it.
