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Previous Challenge Entry (Level 2 – Intermediate)
Topic: Art (01/18/07)
Looking into the mirror today, I realized that this will be the only time I see this particular image. Tomorrow my hair will be combed just a bit differently, I will have on different clothing and maybe the expression on my face will be happier or sadder depending on my mood this day. Maybe I will see a new wrinkle around my eyes, and maybe I will find a new gray hair, and that set me to thinking about the many portraits there are in this world, the many paintings God the master artist has created; for we all indeed, are an individual and unique work of art.

Imagine with me if you will, our master artist’s painting at the time of our conception; the picture being painted as our bodies are formed inside our mother’s womb, what a work of art that is. Imagine the ever changing second to second growth from a minute microscopic egg being fertilized and brought to life by another microscopic organism. The second by second growth of the fetus, as it knits together to form the body parts. The heart is at the center of the painting, the other parts are forming around it. This beautiful painting changes with each brush stroke, and each brush stroke adds another dimension to an every changing masterful painting. There will never be another painting like this… It is a painting of a unique and individual work of art.

Imagine again with me if you will other paintings being added to this gallery. The second by second cell growth and the ever changing shapes and forms and soon this portrait becomes a toddler; chubby arms and legs, maybe blonde or brown hair, and blue or green eyes, depending on the master’s palette choice at that time. This master’s painting portrays a sense of motion and happiness, the colors of youth and hope, the colors of promise…the masterful artistry of a portrait of a unique and individual work of art.

The gallery grows with hundreds of paintings. The ever changing, every growing microscopic cell that becomes a child and then a youth and then an adult. The colors constantly change reflecting moods swings, the happy and the sad, the disappointed and the elated; the colors constantly changing to represent time and place, growth and change; the colors constantly changing to represent the portrait gallery of a unique and individual work of art.

The master’s work is never finished. He has millions of second by second portraits to complete each day. Where there are the portraits of the dim swirls of the fetus growing in the womb, and the pink bloom of youth, at the same time there are the blues and browns of adulthood and the grays and whites of old age. But he too is working on the ethereal portraits. The portraits which mark the end of the growth of those human cells; with just a few of his masterful brush strokes the painting is changed into a heavenly body, the portrait is finally complete. Oh yes; and imagine this. We finally get to see the total art gallery of our lives, and we get to meet and live with the “Master Artist” for all eternity.
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Julie Arduini
01/26/07
A great way to present this topic. The start of the new paragraph "Imagine with me again" probably could use a different start just to stay fresh but it's a minor point. Nice.
Jan Ackerson
01/26/07
I particularly liked this sentence: ...with just a few of his masterful brush strokes the painting is changed into a heavenly body.... Really nice writing here and throughout.