{"id":4739,"date":"2015-08-14T10:03:27","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T15:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/?p=4739"},"modified":"2015-08-14T10:03:27","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T15:03:27","slug":"on-perfect-imperfections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/general\/on-perfect-imperfections\/","title":{"rendered":"on Perfect Imperfections"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Perfect<\/a>
Perfect Imperfections<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nature gives us wonders, people give us art.<\/p>\n

Beauty overwhelms. It is literally everywhere, all we need do is take the time to look. The image of imperfect perfection above is one of the early Althea blossoms on a shrub we planted a couple of years ago.<\/p>\n

What is the nature of perfection?\u00a0 Is it symmetry? Is it flow? Is it meaning we cannot comprehend? Within Nature beauty is abundant, and though imperfect it is beauty no less.<\/p>\n

Can we ever hope to create something as imperfectly beautiful as the blossom depicted above? Though I think not, artists provide us things that are beautiful.\u00a0 I strongly feel things which are beautiful should never be taken for granted, whether from nature or from an artist’s hand.\u00a0 And I’m slowly realizing that every one of us is an artist capable of producing beauty.\u00a0 Don’t despair if you think you’re not, it has taken me fifty-five year to come to that realization so there may still be time for you.<\/p>\n

So if I am an artist, what it my medium? Why, it is words. Words… words hidden within other words, words hidden between lines, words which encourage us to question, words that reveal, words of doubts, and ultimately words of truth as I perceive it. Words which you’re reading right now, that hopefully make you think.\u00a0 Words, that might make you want to find further words which aren’t the same, yet within which you might find substance to satisfy.<\/p>\n

Such words, you may find right here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I hope you’re tempted to try them, but to do so I’m afraid you must buy them. {Well, not necessarily… If you wish to read more before you decide, you may. Words there are aplenty on my blog, even the first few chapters of my work, accessible for free<\/strong> in your browser, right now, right here<\/a>. However, be warned – these words are not what they might at first seem.}<\/p>\n

P.S.\u00a0 Please don’t steal my words. Why?\u00a0 Well I can’t afford to lose them, but also because if there is one thing nobody should ever steal it is another’s soul, and that is what my words are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nature gives us wonders, people give us art. Beauty overwhelms. It is literally everywhere, all we need do is take the time to look. The image of imperfect perfection above is one of the early Althea blossoms on a shrub we planted a couple of years ago. What is the nature of perfection?\u00a0 Is it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[35,208,307],"class_list":["post-4739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-artist","tag-imperfect","tag-perfection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}