Oct 10 2012
Mr. Imagination
On September 23rd, I took a trip to the American Museum of Folk Art. I was not expecting to see any pieces of real art, but i learned that some of the best artists out there are the regular folk among us.
One piece of art in specific that amazed me was the Button Tree. Gregory Warmack suffered a tremendous injury and was in a coma on his death bed. He somehow made a miraculous recovery and used it as his inspiration to create the button tree. He took a tree that was uprooted for urban renewal and gave it a second life as a work of art, reflecting his own renewed life.
This is tremendously inspirational to me. His near death experience reminded Warmack about the value and importance of life. And this Button Tree reminds me of the same message- we gotta live like were dying, because one day, we really will be.
