Oct 15 2020

After a million years.. oh the stars! 

So what makes people paint.. 

Ofcourse, every art form is some kind of expression and painting is something I can relate to a lot more than others next to taking photographs..

I always wondered why I can't paint anything of my own, why can I only recreate someone's painting which I really like and makes me wanna paint..

I thought it was some kind of curse, that I can't paint right out of my head.

Then today upon stumbling on Vangogh's starry night and the one painting where the water reflects the light from the sky and this other guy who made a movie about light pollution who also showed a glimpse of what the sky would look like and my very own recreation of the sky with the stars from Vangogh's perspective and at what state he painted that all just made me think of only one thing. 

Do any of us really see what's around us or above us or do we really notice anything at this age?

We are all so worried about our own life and we run towards it that we never wait for a minute to see what's happening around us. Yes, it's the same old cliched thought or atleast for me, that we should be mindful and stop and stay still for a moment. I have read it. I watch it movies on it. I see it in poetry. I even think about the thought like the one I am writing now.

But I realised something today, I never really put that into action. I never stood still by the river or the sea or under the sky at night by myself. Yes, atleast I have had the experience of these on a romantic night with the love of my life where I tried to make out the constellation, sit by the river and speak nothing, but never anything by myself. I was so shy to even lie down by the Eiffel tower 4 years ago even when so many others did, but now I don't have that inhibition. 

May be if I do too spend time by the river looking at the sky and wondering how the light reflected on the river bank, I too would have painted it on my own rather than recreating a Vangogh.