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The Beatuy of Plagiarism

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Some times it's unbearable not to be surrounded by art. Chattanooga was so intoxicating with it's sceenery and it's people that the addiction was satisfied there. Here, maybe because of the people I know, or maybe because of culture... I don't know, but it's not the same. I've been reading poetry to get my fix. It's been great because I'm exploring spanish literature which is way different! I have yet to figure out why they write the way they do, and what the pattern is. All the same, it is exhilirating to journey through the images, and intimidating realizing the level those authors reached. But I still starve for visual images, the scratches of the pencil and the strokes of the brush.

So today I poked around at Google and stole a concept. Yes, I admit it! I found a photograph and it clinged to me. It was the silhouette of a bird and some branches against the light of the moon. Cliché? Could be, but the lone bird against the vastness of space just deserved a try at copying. So I grabbed some black paper and a white pencil and sketched it out. It was nothing but a sketch not to be bragged about, yet the trust back into the mindset of translating one thing into another, of being true to the lines and not letting them be skewed by my own preset perspective, of recognizing beauty and trying to capture it (though a thievery it may have been), was uplifting like only one of Us can understand. So here is a piece of my mind about stealing art. I will never claim it as mine. I will never display it. But I thank that stranger that pulled me back into that world and held my hand while I reminded my brain how it all works. Wherever you are, whoever you are, it was beautiful to plagiarize your work!


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