Follow what I’ve been up to with the Bravo’s Work of Art Challenges over here.  This week’s inspiration was all about movement as demonstrated by New York Parkour (NYPK).  I’ve loved parkour since its emergence and if I didn’t have such weak bones I’d be jumping off of stuff like Spider Man on crack, too.  Check it:

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So I got inspired by the fluidity of their movement, as chaotic as it is, and decided to rock out some time lapse photography with food coloring and water.

It’s not uncommon to hear, “art imitates life.”  It absolutely does.  Artists pull from their life experiences, and emotional responses and unrest to create organic works of art.  We take from what we know and what we feel: all of it some piece of life that we’ve lived, albeit directly or through someone else.  But I think that as all things come full circle in some way or another, art has its ways as well.  Sure, art imitates life.  But is life naturally imitating art back?  So often I stumble upon little vignettes of life that could more appropriately be called art instead of its natural state of existence.  And in return, It makes me want to create art around it.  More and more I’m finding the lines increasingly blurred, whereupon I’m noticing pieces of life imitating art imitating life.  As if the two keep inspiring one another into this incredible cycle of aesthetically pleasing moments.  I’ve begun piecing these moments together in a series of “life: imitating art: imitating life,” and I couldn’t be more pleased with how its evolving.  I can’t wait to have a whole stack of these: