You Can Find Me and Others at the Progressive Museum

A stroke of paint brushing upon the easel represents you in so many ways. A few more thin strokes to create the lines of your personality. Paper spiraling of the painting to give it that drama you obtain. Sometimes we have masterpieces. Other times we have disasters. But these works of art are collections that represent all of us. The collections can be found in only one place. That special place is Progressive Museum.

In the beginning your going to get your hands dirty. Your master piece or disaster will not only be created by you, but finished by the intermediates, advancers, and teachers. The museum provides you the space for your art. The beginner is the anxious one that tries to think outside the box for others outstanding approval. After brainstorming for minutes, maybe even hours, the beginner finally has their blueprint. Shapes of romantic red. Zig zags with sadness blue. Lines with envy green. Swirls with friendship yellow. Each color represents their art in some meaningful way. Or there is the unusual yet outstanding beginner’s feat: the sculpture. Clay to express the beauty. Wrap around metal to express edge, roughness. You may blend sculpture and art or just an art and /or a sculpture. Now the dried paint or clay has sneaked under your fingernails and on the creases of your hands. Your mind has expressed all it’s thoughts into the painting or the sculpture. Your eyes skim through what you have finally finished.

You find a vacant spot to post your work. The intermediates may stop by your creation and tell you if they liked it. The advancers will express their feelings towards it but also give detail to what grabbed their attention. The teachers you may find a bit rude or very helpful because they tell you what you didn’t do right, what you can improve on, or if your art is very worthy for people to admire. You may even get rated by one of these critiques. Hopefully it’s a good one. But beware of the h –art -ers. These are people who have art work of their own but wish they could make art better than you. Because they can’t, they will only view your art, leave no comment, and rate you a lousy star or two. But all of these people either bring your artwork up to a standard like Van Gough’s or down to a child’s basic doodle.

Of course you want to be the next Van Gough and/or have the “Mona Lisa” everyone will be talking about. But that’s not what progressing is all about. Progress means you are the aspiring artist that has the determination to make a name for yourself. The experienced progressors help you obtain a place in progressive museum. That’ what it’s about. All us helping each other in order to progress towards the greatest artwork: ourselves.

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