It was a whole day of inspirational interaction between three of us (Sasha, Goran and me) traveling from Vancouver to Seattle to see Picasso Masterpieces at SAM (Seattle Art Museum). On the way to Seattle we heard radio show about most influential bass players in punk-rock music during seventies and beginning of eighties. Some of the musicians didn’t even know how to play bass when they started but their energy, passion and power of expression made them innovate and found other ways of using the instrument that inspired other artist towards evolution and progress in expressing themselves, thus improving and revolutionizing the media. They were not part of the establishment and academic nearsightedness, which gave them infinite open space to look into and play with, no borders. Academic training in most cases is necessary but sometimes leaps in evolution are made on basis of a faith and belief in extraordinary momentum. I am academically trained myself and sometimes I have a need to open my mind and heart, look into unseen world of possibilities and get out of cocoon I made for myself over the years to be able to change and develop.

Radio show  information and our outlook of the idea we discussed in the car inspired me to look at the Picasso exhibit through different lens than just as great artist being presented. Sheer belief in expressing oneself with all the might and vigour brings magical forces together to produce simple line on the paper, line that could inspire and give life…Consciously or intuitively, Picasso was using his belief to move his spirit across canvases and inside sculptures that gave them life we feel today when we open our minds and hearts to his creation. For most of the people it is lines, shapes and colours they see, but content that carries ideas, passion, emotions, life itself is what we have to observe. Than all the lines, shapes and colours become storytellers narrating a tale of universal creation.

How deeply you feel connected to extraordinary momentum in the time of creation determines the power of your artistic expression, no matter in what form.

After the visit to the museum I was delighted with the feeling of freedom in my heart. Just freedom.

Check images and videos from SAM and some of the Picasso’s masterpieces presented at the exhibition, bellow:

Me and Picasso as Colossus in SAM

African masks as inspiration for Picasso in SAM. Photo by Atza