Life imitates Art; Art imitates Life. What’s the difference? Maybe Life and Art are one and the same or so intermingled that it’s impossible to separate them…like mayonnaise: egg, oil and vinegar bound together in one, smooth shmear.
Here are two pictures I took on the same day in New Mexico:
Statues in the city; real people in the wilderness. The fact that I put those photos side by side might say something about life…or art. They’re blended, see?
How about this one?
It’s a photograph of flowers on my dining room table. A still life. Is it still life? Those peonies were alive, right there in front of me. I took a picture, which I think looks a bit like a painting. That’s Art, but it looks a lot like Life. Our brains tend to blur symbol and substance. Try talking philosophy for a while: the words we use for concepts often supplant the concepts themselves. For example, the sign shows the words The Grand Canyon. Is the Grand Canyon the sign or the landscape behind it?
I love Art and Life; I love their blurred edges; I love their intermingled perspective. How fortunate to be able to play with both!
(photo credit: Josh)
Life Imitates Art
scillagrace 
Now if you just had a dead chicken in your still life… 🙂
janet
Absurdity is definitely a life art! 🙂
That’s what I always think of when I think of the still art in museums–that dead chicken or something similar. I must prefer yours.
janet
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Scilla – those peonies are stunning and just the part of those Dutch master’s paintings I love best. You caught the light perfectly! I always look forward to your posts and perspective. Thanks from Meg
That photo was taken with a borrowed camera, before I bought myself my own digital camera, but I do like it! Thanks for your visit, Meg, and your consistently positive encouragement!
Love it! Food for thought. Or is it thought for food??
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The world would be all the poorer without Art, of that I am certain..
Oh and the roses do indeed look like a painting..