Ever Changing…

Art class kids and I had a blast making kaleidoscopes on saturday… I’m beginning to look forward to my saturdays 4 to 6pm… this time was crazy… so I have around 32 students who are extremely regular…they are between the ages of 12 and 18…the objective of each lesson is always two fold…teaching art and craft as well as a value that each of us can take with us and think about…
So we made these beautiful delicate kaleidoscopes and seeing the wonder on their faces was something I can’t describe…very few of them had seen one before…so we went through the whole process…step by step…making mistakes…helping each other…waiting in anticipation as we put the bangle pieces in and shut the cylinder…

The objective of the lesson as I explained it to them was:
When you turn the kscope, see how the pattern changes with every move and its unlikely that those pieces will ever fall together in the same way to form the same pattern again…that’s pretty much how our lives are like too…every moment is a little pattern in itself…beautiful, momentary and never to be repeated again…
Hence what should we do…
look at each moment a little bit longer, enjoy it even if its not our happiest moment…just take it in and live it cos it will never come our way again…

I really learned a lot from the kaleidoscopes we made…
there is simplicity even in complexity…
even broken pieces of bangles can be transformed into something beautiful…
beauty lies in your heart…
patterns change…that’s part of living…you move on…forget about old patterns and look forward to new unknown ones…
sometimes you have to squint and look carefully to see the wonder…
there is a music and rhythm in art that you can feel in your eyes…
we need mirrors in our life to transform our pieces into wholes…
keep looking up…and ahead…hold everything upto the light… makes life more beautiful : )