How often do you see beauty in the world around you? Beauty can be in anything from seeing clouds over a mountaintop or hummingbirds in your yard. Do you see beauty?
Some say seeing beauty instills a level of peace or happiness inside you. Maybe it does that, but it can also bring awareness to you that you are part of something bigger than yourself.
I saw the Van Gogh immersive exhibit in Scottsdale, Arizona, a few months ago. I wanted to see the exhibit ever since I heard about it. Van Gogh was a prolific painter with a very distinctive style. He painted what he saw and what he was most aware of, which was flowers, people, landscapes and himself.
The immersive part was because the exhibit was in a large room where examples of Van Gogh’s paintings were on the walls and floors and then artistically changed from one scene to another to the accompaniment of music. The background music was of a classical style with some adapted modern songs and some orchestral arrangements.
Especially distinctive were the eyes of the people Van Gogh painted, almost as if they were looking at you, or showing incredible depth in their eyes. Maybe it was my imagination but it looked like some of portraits randomly blinked their eyes.
Whoever put the exhibit together was very creative and the fading and transformation of the artwork was truly beautiful and exhilarating. There was a scene where all the screens showed white flowers and all the petals of the white flowers seemed to be flying around and then blowing away. This particular panorama was so beautiful that it evoked a level of joy in me so intense that I actually teared up. How often does a person see something that stirs their soul in a good way? I had this same sensation when I saw thousands of black butterflies on the walls in an exhibit of the Phoenix Art Museum.
It gives me hope when you see the beauty in the world around you and know that someone else had that kind of capacity and creativity inside them to see it and then execute it through art or music or some other medium, or you see the natural beauty in the world around us.
If you look for beauty, you will find it. Sometimes it is right in front of you and sometimes you have to search it out. However you find it, it will change your perception of your world.
Finding the good in all things,
Celeste
Silver Lining Musings by Celeste 