Earlier this week I was talking about how improving everyday items improves life on the whole, things like dishes, towels, and a nice mattress. After decorating I thought about our stocking, how 10 years ago they were solid red and white dollar store stocking that I wrote our names on with puffy paint. When the elder princess was born I upgraded to these matching stockings with embroidered names. The downside was I bought three and we had one more on the way, thankfully I was able to get another that’s almost an exact match. The new plaid style was on my mind this morning as I drove by a tire shop, usually they have tires stacked and painted yellow to look like a Minion. Today I noticed they had stacked smaller tires and painted green to look like a Christmas tree. Those are pleasing decorations in a small town, but not for the world’s stage to last for years; that’s real art. A person can still make good art without being exposed to great techniques and styles. Having learned the techniques give a sort of shortcut, less work creating better results. Of course everyone thinks they know what good is, it’s what they like, without the world stage those ideas haven’t been tested and the individual is usually delusional. Some examples are how yesterday I found a channel that explains Rap on the beats, I listen to a lot of rap and have never understood it like that. Or when I learned how to paint, I’ve been seeing in color my whole life, but painting taught me to see differently, that I can control my eyes to change the colors I see.
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