Art - a geometric symbology
I took an Art class in college,
but I couldn't draw too well.
Yet, I loved to hear the teacher describe different artist
that inspired her to become an artist.
But that semester I had too many classes and missed
many of her classes.
And I remember, she had an art exhibit of her own
showing in the big city. And if you went, you would get
a free credit, and so I went.
I admired her, but just could not in any way understand
her paintings of what appeared to me different shades
of colors laid one upon the other hanging on the wall,
on one of the highest floors of this huge towering building,
that was made of steel and glass, and seeing that it was
on one of the highest floors and dark in the night,
with the crowded thoroughfare down in the streets below.
And all I really remember was being given a glass of wine
rummaging within all these other artists that were galivanting around,
I felt so dumb.
I just remember about having to be cramming for all my other classes that semester,
at least I got credit for being here, and in the end, this gave me a
C in the class.
And I remember the last time I saw her, she said you know,
I really wish you would have showed up for more of my classes,
you have something inside of you, if you only took the time
to practice it.
The next semester I took an Art History class about early
American Art - not native Art, but the Art of the white Puritans
from Europe who escaped tyranny to make a new reality
where they could somehow be more free - which is an oxymoron
in a way -
But Art is Geometric Symbology
about life. It shows our collective truest history when you study it
well.
Whether it be Charles Wilson Peale's Mastodon,
or a Picaso's "Figures at the Seaside", or a native peoples Petroglyph
there is a symmetry, as I figure, some magical mysterious linear relationship
not yet figured out, but still in time, as though caught in a photograph.
Art is a feeling, like the smell of an old historic house as if there's a ghost
still living there that could tell you what it was like, but you can't see it
And still you start to understand somewhat differently then just a basic
history book with dates and times.
Like sitting out in nature in one place for a whole day, and then going back
again, and again
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