Love Has Everything To Do With It - postscript

Love Has Everything To Do With It.
20" x30" Acrylic on Cold Press Watercolor Paper
©Kathryn Zoe Van Aernum

Love Has Everything To Do With It

Concrete Love © Kathryn Zoe Van Aernum

As I contemplated the lyrics of the Tina Turner song, "What's Love Got To Do With It," it hit me that Love has everything to do with "it." The "it" being life. It's love that inspires me to create. It's love that inspires me to connect, to appreciate. Without love, or passion, or heart, or whatever you want to call it, there is no point. 

I had an experience recently when I was going through my photo files. It was almost transcendent. There was the subject, the lighting, the composition and, yes, love. I saw the love that inspired me to take the photo reflecting back at me. 

So today, Valentine's day, I'm loving myself by doing what I inspires me; spending time in my art studio creating, playing and feeling the love.

"Meanwhile, once in a while, I have chanced, among the quick things,

  upon the immutable.

What more could one ask?" 

— From "The Long Black Branches by Mary Oliver

The Long Black Branches © Kathryn Zoe Van Aernum

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