Thank You For So Much Beauty

Do you realize how much beauty you bring to the world? Do you know how awesome you are? Really?! Do you?! I am in awe of your work. I love your use of rich and vibrant colors, some even electric. The faces are what really capture my attention; they are delicate, soft, eloquent, inviting and remarkably beautiful. These gentle expressions convey so much, but more than anything they relay the majesty that is you.

I have known you for what seems like a lifetime, but in actuality is only a decade. In that short period of time I have learned so much, and I am forever appreciative of your shared gift of wisdom, which I attempt to apply to my own life. I sometimes lack the poetic ease of your style, and consider myself a work in progress, but then again, I think we all are until the day we die.

I know your spirit, how loving, warm and nurturing it is, and I continue to be blown away at how you convey this message through your art. All that you do appears so effortless.

The adeptness of your art speaks to me like no other. I sometimes wonder if it is because of our friendship, but really know that is only part of it. It’s because you are a true talent. Some may consider the following a bit much, but for me it is a genuine response of my perception of your visions. I look at your work, and I know what the friends of Monet, Manet, Pissarro and other brilliant artists felt like to be in the presence of someone with gifted hands.

I consider you to be one of those people who have inspired me, helping me to tap into my own creativity because that is how life is supposed to work. You inspire me, I inspire someone, and that timeless gift keeps giving. You have taught me that all have the ability to be imaginative and with the proper guidance can make their concepts come to life, making the world a better place.

However, you never talk about the masters, and you happen to be one. I now know that a humbled person such as yourself would never speak of one’s own talent, but you are appreciative for kind gestures. So, thank you, friend, for allowing me to always honor you.

As I have said before, we haven’t seen each other in some time, but you are thought of with much love. I often look at your website, and I am excited that you are using this medium to showcase your talent. You are a visionary of expression, and as a man once said to me (acknowledging my brilliantly colored hanging gardens in a handwritten message on a simple white note card and placing it at my door when I lived at 100 West), "Thank you for so much beauty." So to you I say, thank you for so much beauty, Bharati. – paerki