Photography, for me, is the best evidence of God. When a photographer is good, they can take a picture of anything, the simplest thing like a blade of grass, and suddenly it's art. Suddenly it's amazing, and even though you may see it in life everyday you suddenly see all sorts of details and things you never saw before. But really, all a photographer is doing is capturing what already exists. They're simply documenting the beauty that surrounds us constantly. Artists are really just people who really appriciate the beauty of the world, and art is simply an attempt to recreate, interprete, understand, and share that beauty with others. To me, the world itself is a work of art. In all honesty, I am constantly amazed at the beauty that surrounds me. The world is art, and life is a performance peice, or maybe a film. This is all just too beautiful and masterful to not have been created by someone. God, in essence, is really an amazing artist.
Of course, there are people who say that all this was simply created by a series of random events. But think about it: The best artists are the ones who make something amazing and beautiful, but they make it look easy, like anyone could do it. It's the same with the world. At first glance, you might think, yeh it's nice. But if you really take the time to look at it and really appriciate it, you'll be amazed at the complex beauty of it all. I for one can recognize beauty and art when I see it.
And that's why I want to be an artist. I feel so inspired and amazed at what I see, but there are so many people who don't see all this beauty. I just want to somehow capture just a little of it, and hold it up for others to see. Art is my failing attmet at holding up the beauty that exists in the world. I want to create, I want to recreate. It's something instinctual.
I don't know much about philosophy. But I know there's a lot of arguments about the nature of reality, weather it's subjective or objective. I don't claim to know anything about it, or have any explainations. But I've always though that reality is pretty much objective: Objects exist weather or not someone is there to percieve them. But I wonder, do certain people actually percieve reality differently. I'm not talking about people with mental illnesses, I mean, just people...Any great artist, for example, do they actually see reality differently, or do they just interpret it differently? I guess maybe I would say they interpret it differnetly. I would never say I'm a Great artist, but I get the feeling sometimes that I'm one of the few people who can see the beauty around me. Maybe that sounds selfcentered, but I mean it. It just seems like so many people rush around with their eyes closed, and they never even see the beauty of a shadow or a leaf or an insect or a stranger.
I'm reminded of the closing scene to Our Town (a play that I actually am not that fond of). But Emily's dead and looking at the world and the beauty in it, and she says: "Does anyone realize what life is while they're living it?" and the Stage Manager replies: "No. Saints and poets, maybe. They do some." There is so so so much beauty in the world, and so few people actually see even a little bit. And I just think, that to really wittness all that beauty and say there is no God is like looking at the Sistine Chaple and denying the existance of Michelango.
Beauty is everywhere, just open your eyes.
