Life is like a white canvas. The colors we are going to use is up to our choosing, whether it be greens, grays, or blues, or any color in between for that matter. Every individual starts out with a blank white canvas at the beginning, as it is the start of their life. A space open for new experiences, friends, family, and opportunities to create a masterpiece. Empty, ready to be abundantly filled with all of the oncoming wonders of their journey. As one grows and these factors contribute to their life, different colors are added to the canvas of their life. We all add our color on the canvas, on top of each other, in all different areas and directions. Until eventually we’re not different colors — we are one painting. The smallest experience of meeting someone new, adds a new stroke of color to our painting, overlapping old and new experiences.

Jackson Pollocks abstract painting, “No. 5, 1948”, perfectly depicts the color scheme of one’s lifetime. A wide array of colors, lines, and overlapping layers that can be seen as the experiences and individuals we come across as human beings. Pollock quotes,”Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was”, which can be relative to our day to day lives. Experiences and individuals confront us, they test us. Whichever it may be, or both at times, it adds to your canvas. It may be clean, or it may be messy. Ultimately, you are the artist that gets to decide what colors are portrayed on your blank canvas, but everyday a new color is added. A new line, a new mark, a new part of life.

It’s kind of beautiful, right, if you think about it: the fact that just because someone leaves your life due to any circumstance, just because you can’t see them or talk to them anymore, it doesn’t mean they’re not still in the painting. I think maybe that’s the point of the whole thing. No one truly leaves your life, as they will always be a part of your life. A part of your painting that may not be completely visible, but it is still there. You can see the colors, the individuals and experiences that occurred from the beginning of the blank white canvas. There’s no you or me or them; it’s just us. All of us intertwined included into one life, creating a life full of wonders. This sloppy, wild, colorful, magical thing that has no beginning and has no end, it’s right here (as corny as that may seem). Life gives you time and space, its up to you to fill it with the colors of your choice to create a masterpiece.