I once had a terribly fine meal at the Hôtel Crillon in Paris.  It was in January on a cold, clear night just after New Years.  This drawing came from that evening.  It is about expectation.

 

That’s the thing about this world.  There are awful and terrible experiences.  Sublime and fine.  And sometimes those moments of absolute perfection or formidable greatness are built upon such tiny details.  I just have to pay attention.

 

For example, the peak experience of that evening - and there were many memorable ones - came just after we sat down.  A small velvet bench was brought and placed next to my chair.  Then the waiter (somehow that word doesn’t fit at the Crillon) bent and whispered that it was a resting place for my handbag.

 

All of a sudden the world made complete and utter sense.   I finally knew what to do with my bag.  No throwing it under the table to be stepped upon.  Nor hanging it on my chair to be filched upon.  And the option of cradling it like some ungainly lap dog never did suit.

 

The velvet bench was IT!

 

I suppose this moment of perfection would only be understood by those of you who carry handbags, but believe me, it created a sense of rightness that pervaded the rest of the evening.

 

So I am sitting here now thinking of moments of rightness.  Little ones and big ones.  Moments in art and moments in life.

 

In artslant there are many ways to add your moment of rightness.  In fact, that’s our reason to be really.  And there is room for doubt, and change, and correction until that rightness seems to present itself - or at least something close enough to live with for the time being.

 

How to Add your moment in artslant:

 

Sign in and click on “add.”  Then take a deep breath and start adding!!

 

Add your Exhibit or Event (and your gallery too)

Add your Spotlight – and let us have those moments with you

Add a Group – and make it right for others

Add a Blog Article – and write about striving for it

 

Helpful Hint:  Rightness is in the mind of the beholder.

 

and on that note, I am off to another moment of rightness - my second cup of coffee!

 

- georgia