What Art is and Can Be

Art is everywhere, and it can be anything. It is not always the easiest thing to find, but it's usually there. Everyone knows there's rules that pieces must follow; art is art for a reason. You can't look in any direction at any moment and think of a fire hydrant as art. Or can you? Maybe it's not directly the fire hydrant, but the graffiti that someone painted before you in a city you grew up in. How can this tired building be art? With the right composition, color palette, natural lighting, angle, and eye. In this place geographically, in this moment of our era, whatever you have just... is.

If you look in the right place in a perfect moment in time, and there are many, you have captured that moment. It is a gift for your eyes from nature, your personal art piece, even if not made by you. From that, you have a bit of inspiration right in your head; nobody else has seen it. It is up to you, the artist, to make it have physical form and spread the indigenous beauty that only you have been gifted sight of. You have a different viewpoint than your friend who may have seen it too. Art is proof of existence. Use your creativity to make something new in the world that only you can create.