Life with Art

The good thing about art transcends other areas of our world. It makes an attractive mind much more beautiful. It's also the balm that soothes all ailments.

When you seem like you are having a great day, you need to express yourself through art. And when you feel like the world is completely against you, the battle you face is uphill, and you need to turn to art in those times too.

I once knew of a lady who had her whole life before her. She had just graduated senior high school and she or he had been selected by a top college in the country. She was enjoying a pleasant summer day out about the lake. They'd a platform where she was sunbathing in the middle of the water. She chose to jump in and take a swim. Which was the last time she walked? She was paralyzed when she hit the bottom.

I recall reading a magazine about her. It had been very inspiring. Completely paralyzed inside a wheelchair, she never lost sight of life. Joni Eareckson Tada picked up a brush with her mouth and started painting. But while most people would paint images expressing a feeling of loss in this type of situation, Joni painted the most beautiful scenes of ocean views and horses in meadows. I suppose her thoughts were centered on the fact that life had given her another chance and with that chance she made a decision to oil paint.

Today, she runs a ministry for other people who're handicapped. Nobody needs to pioneer themselves through the loss they've just experienced. Joni can there be to help them. She shows all of them with her actions and through her words. But the something about her words, they aren’t false and they don’t lack understanding, the industry obstacle for many people who suddenly finish up in this type of situation. Joni knows because she has experienced it. People realize that she can relate. Art was there to spark life back to her and now she in turn gives back. That’s a lesson we're able to all are in position to learn.

When I first heard the story about Joni, I figured how original, this type of miraculous story. After I started writing this article, I used to do a search on the net to remind myself of certain details. Joni is buried somewhere within the bottom of the pile since there are example after illustration of how artists have fought back using their own adversity. Artists who're paralyzed or challenged in certain other way are practicing art and getting through life just fine.

For starters, there’s Dennis Francesconi, an artist from Fresno, California who broke his neck and immediately became a quadriplegic due to a ship skiing accident. Then there’s Erin Brady Worsham, an artist who paints with her eyebrows. She battles with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and she or he can neither move nor breathe on her own. But, wires taped to her eyebrows that connect to a keyboard on her wheelchair allow her to manipulate images on her computer screen. Her paintings techniques take her about 250 hour’s price of work, but they're beautiful. When art drives you, nothing can hold you back. Those are only some of the miraculous artists pursuing their passions regardless of the adversities they face.

A couple weeks ago, I highlighted the lives of Peggy Chun and Carlos Vargas within an article entitled “The Drive in Art.” Additionally they found life through art after meeting with adversity. I don’t think it’s a lot as people finding art through life. I believe it’s a larger phenomenon than that. I believe people are finding life through art.