Keeping perspective

As an art student I suppose that thinking you are good is a valuable thing but personally I'm glad I keep things around me that remind me I'm only a novice. After all, beauty is always nourishment to the soul, and if I cannot create the visual art (or written art for that matter) that I feel is best in the world I can at least keep it around me.

This is one of my best reminders currently.

I was working on making abstract images to capture concepts this last weekend and one of them was water. My eyes regularly went to drink in the beauty of this tea bowl, which is currently my favorite, and I admit I never came within miles of the lyric, flowing lines of this peace. So I stay humble enough I suppose and can only exult that such wonderful art adorn my life.


And since I drink matcha out of it practically every day it's art that refreshes the body as well as the soul. I'm a lucky girl!