Just Falling.

falling into christmas.

falling out of love, love.

Here's to looking up.

“Life is reason, art is passion.” Life is like a machine. Each person has a job to do that keeps the machine operating and running smoothly as expected. Humans rotate numbly through the motions and snags of life. They are strung along day after day until they exhaust themselves from the oppressions of work and expectation. With the dull aspects of human existence being so compulsory, life would be nothing but obedience to responsibility, logic, and reason without the existence of art.

Art is not only seen as a canvas and a brush, or a landscape and a photographer, but rather art is the collective consciousness of what a person feels, loves, and lives. Art can take on many forms. It can be something seen, something heard, something written or painted, something loved, something dreamed, or something learned; art exists where passion makes itself known.

Passion teaches us to look beyond what meets the eye to where one can witness the power and sheer beauty of this world. Where life teaches society to see old age as a weary and inevitable part of life, the art of understanding shows us the beauty and fulfillment in the wisdom of old age. Through passion art is seen in the acquired knowledge after a failure, and the power and grace in an unbridled storm. The every day formalities of the universe lose their monotony and mobilize into something otherworldly when in the presence of wholehearted passion.

Without passion the common conceptions of physical art would have no fervor or meaning whatsoever. Stripped of the animation passion puts into a work of art a painting would simply be lines on a canvas, a song would be nothing more than words and notes arranged in an analytical fashion, and a dance would have no more significance than a walk down the street.

Life thrives through art. A human soul cannot hope to live for duty and responsibility alone. Intelligence of any level must be entertained and challenged by the objects and entities in a person’s surroundings, and the paramount way to accomplish this essential part of human growth is through the magnificence of earnest art.

Passion is love ignited. It is a spirit on fire, wild with intuition and harmony, and without it the human race would be no more than a common working society. Life is a showcase to display our art. It is a shell to protect and nurture our dreams and our originality to help them grow into the every day wonders of our existence. Life is simply a roadmap for our souls. It is the name we give our duties and loyalties for the sake of reason, but art is the blessing of creativity and intuition, created for no other purpose than to be an expression of our heart’s innumerable passions.