Thursday, November 5, 2009
I’ve always had a fascination with the small things in life. Not necessarily small things in the literal sense (although they catch my eye, too), but the things our eyes tend to glance over on our way to work or school, when a million thoughts seem to be racing through our minds at once.
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Art is everywhere
It's easy to find beauty in the small things around Lawrence.
I consider myself a fairly normal student — deadly in the art of procrastination, while reserving time to complain about not having enough time. This really is an art in itself.
Yet for some reason, during the tumult of the day, I still find myself glancing to objects, patterns, textures and colors of all sorts, whether they come in the form of old bricks beneath our feet or neglected sewer caps tinged with rust.
To me, all of these things have a beauty unto their own. Art truly is everywhere; you just have to look for it.
To convey this to the best of my abilities, I took a stroll around campus and my neighborhood block in the student ghetto, photographing various things that caught my eye. The German poet Ranier Maria Rilke once wrote, “The future stands firm … but we move about in infinite space.” Why not explore this space a little?
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