#van goh

I attempted to do this paint by number . It’s based on Van Gogh’s Impressionism (don’t come for me if I got this wrong). Back in another lifetime, I took an Art History course and surprisingly enjoyed it. But all the other art classes, I dropped … (Sorry art 100, art 101, photography 100). I do appreciate art especially interactive art exhibits. I love the artist Ai Wei Wei and Banksy.

I didn’t upload my finish product, I have no courage ( I can paraglide and jump off a mountain but cannot show my painting ) For me, it looked a lot harder than it seemed. The numbers were so tiny. Now, I have a new found appreciation for people who create art and a little better understanding of Rafayel and how he searches for inspiration and gets lost in his creation.

confidence is the quiet alignment between what one can do and what one is willing to attempt. It does not shout; it stands. Humility is not the shrinking of the self, but the accurate measurement of it—knowing the scale of the world and choosing to act anyway. Where confidence without humility becomes noise, humility without confidence becomes silence. Strength lives in their balance, like tension in a bow that neither snaps nor slackens.

The trope of the crowd warrior is often misunderstood. We imagine the hero as one who rises above others, but the truer image is one who rises with them—who can carry momentum without claiming ownership of it. The crowd warrior is not fueled by applause but by responsibility; they move because stillness would cost others. Their courage is social, not theatrical. They are formidable precisely because they are not alone, and not pretending to be.

Corridor in the Asylum

Vincent van Gogh Dutch

September 1889