My wife and I are both artists. She is brilliant when it comes to decoration. The other night she showed me a picture of a display she’s made at work and I was blown away by how awesome it looked, then she explained her process behind and I was entranced. I can’t measure up to my wife’s artistic ability but I consider myself artsy as well. My latest canvas, food.
It all started with pigs in a blanket. We’ve been on a tighter budget with moving and a new job, so I’ve been trying to be more creative. When I looked in the kitchen I found hot dogs. We were out of bread and I’m not one for eating straight hotdogs, so I looked up a recipe for pigs in a blanket and made what I’ve deemed hogs in a blanket. Since then I’ve been looking up multiple recipes even letting my kids make their own pizza’s.
After a week I decided to sit down and make a meal list. Now you’d think that’d be pretty simple, after all when I had nothing I was able to think of multiple meals out of the random things we had in our kitchen, but here I was sitting in front of the computer completely blank. I had no idea what I could add besides the things I’d made on the fly over the week.
Later that night I was telling my wife about the incident and her eyes lit up. She also felt like her artistic abilities thrived when she was on the spot rather then preplanning it all out. It seemed so foreign. My favorite artistic outlet is writing and I feel like that is literally laying your ideas on the table to be molded.
That’s the reality of art and artists, we’re all different with varying visions, Some people love our vision some despise it, some are entranced for reasons they can’t explain others don’t like what they don’t understand, and some thrive in a well prepared plan, while others simply live in artistic chaos.
Jacob Gittins 