Dusty windows

Dec 19 2021 | Sunday

Hello, beloved artist.

En route to the hospital, I saw drawings on the dusty window of a car. Somebody had drawn a beautiful pineapple on it among other things that I can't remember.

The temptation to draw something on a dusty surface is so severe that all of us end up doing it. We're all such massive artists that every dusty surface is a canvas.

When I thought some more about it, I realized that it's beautiful how we all have the urge to draw something on a dusty window or desk or a foggy window, how we all feel like doodling when we are holding a pen or pencil, how we write our names everywhere, how the first thing we write while checking a pen is our names, how we surround ourselves with art wherever we go, wherever we are. There's art everywhere, we're surrounded by it. There's art in how we dress up, how we make our tea, how we decorate our house and our rooms, how we arrange our books, clothes and other possessions. There's art in the way we do our hair. There's art in our handwriting. There's art on the margins of our books and notebooks, especially on the last page of our notebooks. There's art in the way a smile forms on the face of someone we love.
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Thank you for reading.​
Sahar Afreen

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