Life Barefoot: The Creativity of Humanity

"Somewhere in a burst of glory, sound becomes a song" That's Where I Belong - song by Paul Simon

This lyric always strikes me when I listen closely to this song by Paul Simon. It creates the realization many of us notice when we see how things come together to create art. It is the joining of inspiration and media or the music notes that form a melody and shape a harmony that leads to something unique.

Creativity shows us how other people view the world we see and how they want to shape the future of it. It isn't a moment that stops us, but it influences us. I continue to be amazed by how people form works of art from the depths of themselves that reach my own depths and resonate with my own experiences. And sometimes it doesn't even have to be from art, but from the creation of a moment that is intended to be unintentional or a design that is merely functional.

Pieces of life come together in color and expressive touches from line to shape and many more features. In walking down streets and taking in the work of people around me, I often wonder about the origins or stand looking, hearing, smelling, tasting, or touching something curiously striking. The arrangement of flowers in a garden, the mosaics of tile spelling out letters of a destination on a wall, the drone of bagpipes, the spicy radish in a summer salad, and the feel of marble in a national memorial often created from what we see, what we know, and what makes us most alive. It is what stops us in our tracks and makes us notice that something beautiful has been shared with us or that something beautiful has come from our lives and ways of seeing.

If someone says they aren't creative, I doubt their statement. I believe everyone has their own way of expressing their creativity that is emotive or personal that is unlike someone else's. They may wish that they were creative like someone else, but that only minimizes their efforts to create what means something to their lives. I am often inspired by colors, lights, water, textures, flavors, and arrangements of objects in displays. If the glory of life is found when sound becomes a song, it can also be noticed when the inspiration becomes tangible and emotive as we share life and notice our connection to ourselves, to others, and to the moment that can be shared as a piece of one's life that is left to experience.

Creativity throughout New York State in the subjects of the photographs, not the photographs themselves.