Today I’m grateful for art in all its incarnations and
artists in all their manifestations. If you are willing to look, you can find
extraordinary creativity and beauty in some of the most seemingly unlikely
places.
Here’s an example. I first saw it Saturday, and I must
have replayed it about five times since. Because: beautiful, delicate, flowery
cotton candy!
As I was watching this street vendor spend more than two
minutes to create a multi-colored cotton-candy flower for what I imagine is
pennies, my heart lightened. Here’s a guy who suits up every day to go stand
for hours in a not-very-salubrious-looking location, putting his all into
creating stunning sculptures out of spun sugar.
In my world of strip malls, software engineer ninjas and
apartment complexes with hundreds of units, this cotton-candy artist is a true
innovator; every single one of his creations is unique. And lovely.
And that just makes me smile.
Even more so because his work is so ephemeral. None of
them is going to make it intact five meters from his stand. They’re all going
to be devoured. Yet he keeps on making them.
Thanks for that, cotton-candy dude. Thanks.
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