Pushing Pixels

My first fine art photography show Symbology, installed in the black box theatre at the Columbia Music Festival association.

As I sat on the porch where I currently live, listening to the water fall in the Koi pond, and trying to catch up on growing email inbox this morning, I ran across a facebook message from a few weeks ago that new friend and fellow artist Anastasia Chernoff sent, after visiting my photo show, the subject of that message was “The after-show glow…”  In her message she equated the emotions of putting your first show together, to giving birth to a baby (something I’ll never know about), and went on to say “…the opening night was all so beautifully surreal. An incredible high that, to this day, STILL resonates within me when I think about it.”  That last statement is something I can now completely understand though.  Now that I look back on the whole experience of my show which closed at the conclusion of the 2009 Artista Vista three weeks ago, it STILL resonates within me, and I’m sure it will continue to, for the rest of my life.  While my entire life has been a complete whirlwind for the past 3 months, filled with the stresses of work, travel, putting on my first show, and trying to buy my first home, I sit here this morning feeling the calmest, and certainly the most content I’ve been in the past 8 months, all thanks to the wonderful friends, and family who now share my life with me.

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Over the past few months, many things in my life have gone through significant changes. The road I am on today, is not the one I thought I would be on two years ago in some instances, or even four months ago in others. While the realization of necessary change has been a hard pill to swallow for me, I have come to realize many things about who I am, the world around me, and how I see those things.

I have also recently come to understand that the right things find you at the right time, when you need them the most. Those things you find can be as simple as a sunset, or as complicated as a book, that teaches you not to take things for granted, and reminds you to always follow your dreams. If those things found you any sooner they wouldn’t impact you in the way they do when you really need them. This reaization held true when I saw a link to a YouTube video of Apple Founder, Steve Jobs 2005 commencement speech at Stanford University, on my friend’s twitter feed this morning. I have always been a fan of Steve Jobs and his visionary thinking, and this speech is no exception.

This video holds special significance to me, since I also graduated from college in the same year. While I could sit here, and pine away at the idea of hearing this speech, or one equally as deep and motivational at my own graduation from Western Kentucky University, four years ago, I don’t think it would have impacted me seeing it now has. Seeing this speech is a reminder to me, never to loose the idealism, and passion for what I have worked so hard to achieve. So “Stay hungry, stay foolish…”

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech 2005

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