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Choosing Light |
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“Whoever is happy will make others happy too. He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!” —Anne Frank, "The Diary of a Young Girl" Anne Frank wrote these words while hiding in an Amsterdam attic, facing circumstances most of us can barely imagine. Yet even there, in that cramped space with darkness closing in, she understood something essential about the human spirit: happiness and courage are not luxuries we wait for—they're choices we make, and they spread. Artists know this instinctively. Every painting, every sculpture, every photograph is an act of faith—faith that something worth sharing exists within them, faith that others might find meaning in what they create. The studio is where this choice happens daily. You face the blank canvas, the unmarked clay, the empty frame, knowing you might fail but choosing to begin anyway. You turn on the lights and get to work. What Anne Frank recognized in her brief life, artists demonstrate with every work they complete: our inner state touches others. A painting created with joy carries that joy forward. A photograph made with attention and care invites the viewer to slow down, to notice, to see what they might have missed. Art made with courage gives permission to others to be brave. Each work is a small lamp passed hand to hand. This is why museums matter. Not as temples of culture or halls of education, but as spaces where these acts of creative courage meet people searching for their own. When you stand before a work of art that speaks to you, you're experiencing what Anne Frank described—someone else's happiness, hope, or resilience reaching across time and space to illuminate something in you. |
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