Rooftop signifies contemplation. Contemplation is always happy in itself. It is, in one way, the most self-containing human action. Rightly said by Aristotle: "The activity of God, which surpasses all others in blessedness, must be contemplative; and of human activities, therefore, that which is most akin to this must be most of the nature of happiness."
Sunday, December 30, 2007
New Year Greetings with a child's artsmile
When I visited my brother's daughter, a little child, she was entertaining me with her world of interests about the dragon fly sitting on the leaves of a tree, a garden lizard sleeping in its couch of mud hole in the ground, the caterpillar and oh a world, a world really, of things and concerns.!! How much I miss that world of little great concerns! When I started, she wanted to present me with an artwork of her, freshly penciled for my sake just before I came and this is that one. I am staring at this work, wondering what colors have gone into her language. Green, orange, yellow form one layer of her expression. Green margins the layers of pink and red on the bed of black. In between these a splash of thick blue and sky blue buffers the two statements. Yea, a New Year's greetings from a child's mind reads in me multi-meanings coloring suggestions again and again.
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Your niece is a better painter than my nephew's wife, whose work can be seen at crossyourtoes.com. She has sold a number of paintings but why anyone would buy them I cannot tell.
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