Art is a Mirror

When we stand before a work of art, we might think we’re looking at something outside ourselves, be it a painting, a sculpture, or an image created by another.

Yet what we see reflects the one who is seeing.

Each brushstroke, each texture, meets our mood, our memories, our way of being in this moment.

The artwork doesn’t change, but we do, and in that shifting, it reveals us.

The same is true of the world. Every circumstance mirrors our mind. When we move through life with tension, the world feels tense; when we meet it with openness, the world opens in return.

Art can teach us how to truly look. When we stop trying to grasp or interpret, but simply receive, the boundary between observer and observed disappears.

In that stillness, life itself becomes the reflection.