Venus De Milo

"I don't want to wait until the masterpiece is finished I want to be a sculpture." No one wants to start off being a block of clay because it takes too long to mold into artwork. I know that I personally want to be the finished product. I can be selfish a lot in life and I know that. At times we see others who have gone through things to get to where they are and we are ignorant of their progress and we don't understand why we can't have what we want when we want it.

Artwork does not start off as art and I am very well sure that you know that Rome wasn't built in a day. Sometimes when a sculpture is completed it remains just that until something gives it a story to tell and sometimes our lives will radiate once we have have discovered our path. Take the Venus De Milo for example. The left arm was held at just below the eye level of the statue above a herm while holding an apple. The right side of the statue is more carefully worked and finished than the left side or back, indicating that the statue was intended to be seen mainly as a profile from its right. It is hard to say whether or not this would still be worshiped in its grandeur as a piece of artwork had it not "lived" and become what we admire to day.

"What doesn't kill you will make you stronger," is the phrase that we all cling to for comfort through difficult times. We see bumps along the road in life and we believe that it is shaping the character of who we are. We take these bumps and chisel away at all that we were in hopes of getting to our true beauty. I realize this and I believe this with my heart and soul however it is hard being a block of clay sitting in the corner while Alexandros is focusing his time on all of his other projects. However, my opinion will never count for anything and it never will. Only an artist can see his finished product in all of its glory from just a block of clay. If you ask most musicians they will tell you they put the songs on their album that they like and they hope that everyone else thinks the piece is as amazing as they do.

I guess I will leave it up to my artist because apparently my eyes haven't been chiseled yet so I can't see anything anyway.