Kelly Gibbons, artist and writer, about me

Friday, July 30, 2004

There is beauty in everything. Before you judge something or find the faults, find the beauty and things will look differently.

I am not a super religious person, my Catholic education cured me of that. But I do believe in God in my own way. I have never thought that God was mean or vengeful, and I used to cringe when the priests and nuns would tell us we would be punished by God for doing bad things (like chewing gum in class.)

Yesterday, I was driving along and thinking -- a bad combination for me, it is how I got a speeding ticket in the past -- and looking at the beautiful scenery and it occurred to me that God must be funny and childlike to come up with some of the creations he did.

Look at the trees, there are about a billion different shades of green and they come in all different shapes and sizes. It as if God couldn't decide on which one so he just kept throwing colors out there and stopped when he thought it looked good. Once again I saw how imperfection could be perfect.

Yea, yea, I know evolution and nature have a lot to do with it, and I don't believe that "poof" one day it was all just there, but at some point, I really believe that someone or something had to create something, so call it what you will, God, the Universe, the One, the Source, whatever you choose or don't choose. I'm not here to judge your beliefs. I'm just here to share mine.

I try hard not to judge or question other people's work. I don't question nature(in my opinion the supreme creation). I don't pick it apart and find all the faults. I look at these things as a whole and find the beauty. Even with art I don't understand or things that aren't my taste, I try not to be judgmental about them, because it is beautiful to someone. There is beauty in everything, and that's what we should look for.

I don't always look for it in myself or my work. Instead of seeing the beauty, I see all the faults and mistakes. I have killed many beautiful thoughts and creations by being overly judgmental of myself and my work. Self sabotage is a terrible thing. It is time to start looking at myself and my work like I look at other people's work and seeing the beauty and the promise above everything else.

posted by Kelly @ 7/30/2004 06:35:00 AM

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