musing perspective

Perspective.

Backing up. Backing off.

Drawing back.

Isn't that what perspective really is?

"Drawing back"

Think about those two words,

and imagine the physical sensation 

of doing just that.

I recently relearned that Perspective as an artist's tool 

manifested during the Renaissance in Europe (1300-1600's).

This technique of being able to draw a scene back

enabled the artist to reveal life 

as it was actually being seen and experienced .

As the Artist of one's own Life,

an individual may employ the technique of Perspective- 

to draw back, see the whole view 

a much widened scene 

find the places that need more red, less blue

some more texture or some of the layers scraped off.

I kept asking myself, 

after I'd set out on a long journey from home,

everything so strange and foreign,

"Why have I come here?"

thank G-d I remembered.