Shows-a-plenty, the ART walk was blessed by delicious weather and all that is new and is risky and is fun! is found in the Wynwood section of Miami. This area once predominantly working and lower income Puerto Rican is now alive with ART and the beautiful people who love to adventure into the unknown to catch a glimpse of what’s fresh from the inside of the mind of genius.
Bruce Grayson, ART space at 167 NW 25 Street, Miami in the Wynwood Arts District, a Miami-based artist, got it right. Directly on the art walk and not to be missed but just be prepared to smile. Of the many, many people I watched entering the gallery at last night's Wynwood Gallery Walk, very few did not smile when they saw what was being displayed on the walls of this triangular venue.
The triangle is a symbol for life, creativity, creation, ascension, manifestation, illumination.
People watching is enjoyable to me I see it as living ART. The small thought process you can just imagine you’ve just witnessed crossing people’s minds by you can the subtle ways facial expressions change if you look closely at people's face, eyes lighten up lines crinkle around them or mouth or how your think you might believe you know how that person is feeling about what they are seeing…is intriguing to me. Working on gut and/or instinct with careful observation you start to avoid dead ends in people and places that take you nowhere. We can see so much when we really observe and try to see a person. "I see YOU" from Avatar the movie.
Allured over to the ART gallery by the groove of the steel drums playing on the sidewalk these unsuspecting patrons of ART gingerly step into the space unaware of what they will find. Don’t we all love the discovery of ART? Blessed are those who see ART in everything. To see the facial expressions shift, lift, lighten, come alive, giggle, and smile was a gift because isn’t that what life’s really about? The ART of finding joy in all things. It is an ART because it is a skill to be practiced and refined. The ART of living, well.
“Are you an artist?” was one of the question of the night, I paused before answering, “I’ve exhibited work in an Wynwood art gallery this year, does that make me an artist?” I embrace the title of ARTist just not the label. I’ve refuse to a create business card for myself, because I do not want to limit who I AM or who I AM to become. The graffiti like name on the big, stiff, glossy 3x5 flyer your holding is my email that’s what you get if you ask me for a business card. I watch for people’s reactions to this business card, at first they’re not sure if they want to hold on to it but it’s too big and it would be rude to just drop it. If it were a traditional size business card they would pretend to look at it and dump it right in their pocket or bag to be tossed out later. If and when we speak some more, they at this point, have confirmed that they have decided it is important for them to keep it so now they figure out how to store it (usually folding) so when they need to contact me (and they will NEED me) they look for the big flyer card.
A big business card from the woman with the big smile and big ideas who believes you’re a big deal… now that’s ART.
