What is on display?

I really liked the analogy Bob Goff wrote in chapter 22 ‘ the puppeteer’ of his book Love Does.

He describes how he purchased a very expensive artwork.
When he comes to collect it, the seller gives him two:

• The original valuable work created by the master artist.
• A reproduction.

When he asks why that is, the seller tells him something along these lines:

"Store the valuable real thing somewhere safe and put the cheap reproduction on display in your home. You can enjoy the picture, with a security that nothing can harm you having it."

Bob decided that he wanted the real thing to be in plain view, no matter what.
What is the point of having a masterpiece, he figures, having it hidden away in the dark?

Yes, it got damaged, in the swing of family life, but to Bob's mind, that made it even more ‘lived with’ and precious to him.
Bob made this story into an analogy, seeing a similarity with quality of ‘life’.

I rephrase his take on it, in my own words, linking it to anearlier palette of choice blog post:

The Master Creator of life has produced quite an oeuvre d’art of valuable originals, to enjoy openly, freely…
One of which is you, one of which is me. Every living being is such an original.

They are all different, but they have all in common that they are all painted with high quality rich true Universal Pigmented vibrant colours on the highest quality sturdy canvasses.

Yes, things may happen to it, in daily life, when shown in public.
So, it is also possible to show the world a reproduction. It resembles the real thing, gives an impression of the idea, the  story, the purpose ….
But it is not the same, it is not the real thing.
It can’t stand scrutiny up close and personal by an expert in the works of the master-self. It probably doesn’t last as long in the light either, for cheaper pigments fade and discolour much, much quicker.

I am extrapolating a little from this analogy.

What if…..

•  the Master Creator of Life, is like all really inspiring Master Artists, like Michelangelo, Picasso, Piet Mondriaan, Rembrandt van Rijn, Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Gauguin,  in constant artistic development too?
• In the evolution of creation, new ideas spring into being? New possibilities of the use of the very same high quality ingredients get explored, lead to so distinctively other, new work that highlights different facets of life, applying different techniques?

An early Mondriaan, is likely to be a straightforward painted landscape in the fashion of his teachers and peers… but his signature style, is landscapes in abstracts: compositions of lines and patches.

We all know that the work from Van Gogh didn’t get appreciated in his life time by ‘ the public’, for being so very different from the main stream. His visual colourful language only got understood and communicated in, played with, appreciated, much later….  Should he not have bothered? Monetary life surely could, maybe, have been more abundant for him by painting what was in fashion in those days. It is not that he couldn’t produce what the masses really liked in those days, I don’t think. 

I suppose, it is because he could not  do that when he was to respect being  the open free expression of the work of art the Master Creator of Life  pictured him to be in his real true colours, on the real vibrant canvas of life.

Then, I extrapolate some more, based on my experience of having had this magical and stunning meeting of my twin soul. The realisation of being close to this other human-being- ‘canvas’, painted with the exact same true vibrant colours from the exact same ‘batch’ in the very same moment of creation, telling another part of the exact same story as the Creator of Life depicted in my soul.

Where (trust me) I am not ignoring the understanding that the whole oeuvre d’art of the Master Creator IS telling the very same story about the very same theme, over and over again. That theme seems to be his one and only signature-theme.....

What if….

• The Master Creator of Life has also played with producing some diptyches ( and you never now, triptychs etc…..)?
• My twin soul and I then are indeed physically separable. We are each telling our own story within our own ‘frame’ of mind, like all individual paintings do. However, our purpose/story is much stronger interrelated than ‘hanging’ in the company of other painting or group of paintings.
• The whole story, as intended by the Master Creator, can only be known, seen, in its diptych composition, when the two works of art are both present, close together, in the intended order,  in the same venue, open for all to see, both telling their whole complete separate stories and in doing so, conveying the real meaning of the bigger picture message too.
• The diptych composition I am a part of, is also quite different from the fashion of the last decades… unconventional, new, more abstract, multi-layered, showing paradoxal sides of life, to be ONE, just depending on perspective ….?
• The full realisation of  ‘not being mainstream’, not easy to swallow or understand or be appreciated, As IS, is the source of the choice of the other part of this diptych to put a reproduction on permanent display.
• We both have been imprinted with in our spate lives so far that you are only being liked if you give people what they want to see and that is NOT our true colours, our real story, our  true image, in all details, so we both delivered a light hearted reproduction of our real pictures, in the style we knew people could easily relate to. 

Ever since having seen the full picture, of the whole real diptych, brought in the full light… having felt how complete and connected to ‘life’ I felt and… having seen the wonderful effects our full-vibes picture had on the people who looked at us, showing the real deal…. I decided consciousnly to put my real picture forward, as much as I can.... it is simply the best I have to offer, wether it is liked or not.

I know, a diptych will always be that, no matter what.

I suspect it will always have this very special stunning effect of seeing a complete master piece, when we are both present in the same here and now, sharing with the world, including each other, the real indepth colours, the real story, the real ( unconventional ?) composition freely, openly.

When we both choose to put the most valuable (genuine/ authentic) we ‘have’ (ARE) for all to see out there, regardless of who is looking or the time of day, in the very same frames of mind we were originally framed in.

And the fate of the more fashionable likable reproductions ….?
Maybe… (if we still enjoy having them, for whatever reason)…. in a dark, safe place, an archive or a museum about the evolution of human life, depicting the fascinating stories people told before they knew what their real story was, in the high quality vibes of Life itself…..?

I zoom in with more detail into the apple images shown in this blog post, here.