Inspiration

(Chama Mama, 14th St.) Captured within a high pointed Georgian restaurant, lies a multimedia collage so eye catching I couldn’t help but photograph it. Dead center of the composition is an eerily joyful female with what could be a botched lipstick job, but the blood strewn across the painting clues the viewer to something darker. My first thought before I noticed the woman’s blouse was an artwork merging different time periods. The ivy leaves in her hair evoke a Hellenistic Greek chaplet. Next to it perhaps, a flat faced Moai Easter Island head or Aztec Civilization piece. In the foreground, a black marble woman bust representing classical figure design. Another approach to form in foreground is a smelted bronze sculpture that could be imported European modernism.

Stay open to sources of inspiration when you see something you like even if you don’t know why. Is yellow paint stripe supposed to have meaning? If so, what? Existential uncertainty can express a grounded sense of what being human is. Strive to capture the unknown by finding things you didn’t know existed. See how that can translate into something that ends up being meaningful later on.