The Art of Life

In the winter I visited the exhibit of The Gates shortly before the close of the exhibit in Central Park. It reminded me of childhood. I loved that adults could be possessed of such playfulness to make one entryway after another after another.

This art piece came to mind after viewing Carla Kimball's most recent post. Her question today is, "How can you create art using the natural world?" For the first time her question sat uncomfortably with me. I get her point, but I worry that this phrasing may sound to some like the natural world itself is not already art. The world is G-d's masterpiece. In retrospect, The Gates seems inspired by this phenomenon of nature, which provides Kimball's photo of the day.