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🗓️ 5 September 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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0:00.0 | Have you ever stood in front of a canvas, brush and hand, palette full of vibrant colors, and wondered, where do I even start? |
0:13.6 | The age-old paradox of the blink canvas. |
0:18.8 | I mean, think about it. It can be both exhilarating and yet paralyzing at the same |
0:24.5 | time. Close your eyes. Let's do this together. Imagine you're in a famous art museum, right? They've |
0:32.3 | given it to you for the day. It's all yours. And in front of you, you have this blank canvas, but you're surrounded by the |
0:41.6 | most beautiful, stunning works of art and history ever made, right? And so you have this blank |
0:49.2 | canvas in front of you. You have this space, and you have the choice to paint it whatever colors you want to use. |
0:57.0 | What do you do? |
1:01.0 | It's interesting actually if you think about color. |
1:04.0 | The earliest pigments used in art were actually made from organic materials like plants and minerals and such. |
1:13.6 | Artists from ancient times, they would grind these into powders, and then they would mix them |
1:19.6 | with various oils or water, and voila, a color was born. |
1:25.6 | And here I am usually just reaching for the box of crayons and just saying, oh, I'll |
1:30.6 | take this color. But each color has a story. Each color has an origin, right? There's something |
1:39.1 | behind it, much like the feelings and emotions that course through our veins. |
1:47.7 | It's pretty fascinating to think about it, right? |
1:50.9 | The way we feel can be so easily related to something as basic, |
1:55.8 | yet as intricate as a color. |
1:59.8 | Now, what if I told you that the canvas in front of you is not just a piece of |
2:04.6 | cloth, but it's a metaphor for the landscape of your emotions. In that brush, the brush that's in your hand, |
2:12.6 | it's your thoughts, it's your actions, it's how you choose to interact with the world and yourself. |
2:19.3 | And this palette, this wheel of color, that's the most intriguing part, in my opinion. |
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