We were really paseando on a street. I wasn't feeling very well, so I really got the hang of walking slowly and admiring everything around me. After a té, we wandered down a street, and found the most amazing surprise. This art gallery tucked away on an unassuming cobblestone street. We catch a glimpse of some bright colors from across the street, and then walk closer and are filled with more and more color, until I am standing in front of a huge painting dashed with amazing amounts of color and emotion. This gallery and these paintings are unlike anything I've seen in a long time.
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At first it seems set up like a normal gallery. A few paintings on the off-white walls. We take a closer look at the paintings, and they are full of color and wonderful feelings. I look up at the ceilings, and there are colored pencils poking out from the ceiling everywhere. Hanging down are orgami birds of all different colors. In the back of the gallery is a studio space with unfinished paintings and paintings waiting to be hung. And on the wall, to the right, was an artist statement that just lit me up with joy.
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This exposition was called "All You Need Is Color." His statement began with, "Hay tierras sin pan, pero también hay tierras sin color"...."There are lands without bread, but there are also lands without color." He continued the story of how we go about life many times just in mute or unbrilliant colors. That colors are all around us, but we don't find them or choose not too. But once we do, our life brightens, our life has meaning again. All we need is color in our life, all we need is that little bit of happiness to cheer us up on any day.
And I kid you not. I left that gallery feeling a million times better, mentally and physically, then I had in two days. I left a note in the guestbook before I left: "I can't imagine my life without color. Thank you for my remind me how important it is." And I left the story with new eyes seeing the color in all the buildings, the sky, the trees, the sidewalk barriers....
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