Flax oil.

I was making salad dressing (I recently found out they sell it in bottles so you don’t have to make it from scratch every day) and as I poured the oil into the glass bowl, it created some interesting bubbles.  The color and the bubbles remind me of Serrano’s “Piss Christ”, which is actually a beautiful picture, of a crucifix radiating light.  I know that image ruffled a lot of feathers, and I can see why, but if you didn’t know that the golden substance was the artist’s urine, there would be nothing offensive about it.  It was his choice to name it that and invite controversy.

I am further reminded of a picture of the back of my eye taken by a technician using some neural analyzer.  She showed me some others and said “aren’t they beautiful? Each one different, and I love the colors”.

It’s not hard to find art in unusual places, if you let go of what you THINK art is, or where you THINK art should be found.  I once had a photography teacher say to me “if you want to take interesting pictures, go to Paris instead of KMart”. I hope he was not really listening to himself!  If one wants examples of architecture, I admit that it would be easier to find images in Paris, but someone with a sharp eye can take a picture of objects on a shelf at KMart that are professional, evocative, poignant, meaningful. Let your creative sense off it’s leash and see where it takes you.