There are four art works in the photo, taken in 2017 at the Museum of Modern Art (re-edited for this essay.)
If all four were $100 each & you had to buy one, which would it be?
One was valued in 2019 at 1.2 billion dollars. The others? Not so much.
As someone who now spends most of his life on film art, I am endlessly fascinated by how people see.
The average museum goer spends 7 seconds before a masterpiece. Consider the nine people in that room. Seven have lost interest. Only two (one barely visible) attend to the masterpiece.
How rapidly do we scroll cell phone photos? A quarter second per picture?
When anyone looks at a painting the brain asks first: What or who is it? Next! Scrolling is faster than page turning.
How many caregivers see patients as people first & diagnosis second?
Want to see with sacred eyes? Look at this picture, or any, for a full minute. Better yet, try ten. Share what you see & how you feel.
The billion dollar masterpiece is the Picasso at top right. I made the other three, available for a bargain price. Maybe a donation to the foundation that sponsors this Journal?*
-Erie Chapman
*In the Journal's 16 year history (supported by volunteers) we have never asked for contributions to support Radical Loving Care®. If you wish, go to www.eriechapmanfoundation.net Click the "Donate" button. $1 is fine. Thank you:-)
**All photographs by Erie.
