Tonight I had the pleasure of participating in a conversation with 3 smart people (2 other artist educators and an art historian/museum educator facilitator) in front of just two paintings in the museum where I work. I looked longer and more fruitfully at a painting I thought I had seen before and I was enlightened by both the strategy (similar ones are used here and here and here) and the reminder to slow down.
What's amazing about seeing things in a painting you didn't know were there is what is amazing about the whole trick of living well. Slow down. Slow down. Slow down.
I can't mutter it, mantra it, want it enough.
take care,
Rachael