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You might have seen some worldwide celebrated artworks like “Mona Lisa”, “The Starry Night”, “The scream” and thought- you’re not intellectual enough to understand the art and relate to the core message of the work, let’s leave it for the great minds and the deep thinkers to unravel it. But no. Art is for anyone who wants to experience it. Songs you like, movies you watch, choreographies you’ve seen, crafts people make, a poem you tried to write, even a quilt that your grandma made- all of that and more is art. Art has been around for thousands of years and has evolved throughout the time based on geography, climate, resource availability and even individual choice. The biggest artists all around the globe did put their colors to magic under certain situations, trying to tell certain stories- but experiencing art is a totally different subject.

Understanding art is not equivalent to experiencing and feeling the emotions from it. Art is for anyone who wants to experience it. Art is anything that stirs emotion in you and it depends on your story, your shaping of life and who you are- when it comes to your take on the piece. If you take a group of people and show them an artwork, they’ll all have their individual diverse reactions to it. Different perceptions, different observations. Some might find it beautiful and some might just not. After all, everyone is entitled to their own preferences. If you don’t happen to like a sculpture that maybe your friend likes, it doesn’t devalue you or the sculpture. A part of the sculpture’s value comes from the reasoning why your friend admires it so much and you can always learn something new from it, have a fresh point of view.

Everyone reacts to art differently and has the potential to grow and learn from it. Art is a diverse range of human activity which opens a portal of personal experience for you to draw meaning from, according to your own insight and impression of it. The term art is really just a label.

Art is everywhere.

Art is existence.

Saya (mungkin) merasakan apa yg dirasakan Umar Bin Khattab saat luluh hatinya mendengar bacaaan Alquran. Rasa itu saya temukan sekitar 10 tahun lalu ketika mendengar shalawat Aba Bakrin, sebuah nomor lagu KiaiKanjeng yang vokalnya didendangkan oleh Zainul Arifin. Saat mendengar suaranya, satu hal yang terasa: inilah surga. Semenjak itu, segala hal menjadi lebih mudah diruhanikan. 

Kini ia telah pergi, Allah memanggilnya di usia 39 tahun. Sepertinya para penghuni surga sudah tidak sabar ingin mendengar suaranya. Di saat-saat terbaring di Rumah Sakit Haji Sukolilo, Surabaya, Zainul masih menciptakan lagu shalawat, direkam pada tanggal 7 Juni 2015 lalu melalui handphone, diberi judul Harapan Dan Doa. KiaiKanjeng lalu menambahkan musiknya, anda bisa dengarkan komposisinya pada tautan: http://youtu.be/Kl4RYbvNxhU 

Mas, sejak hari ini, aku akan mengumpulkan lagu-lagumu, shalawat dan puji-pujianmu pada Rasullullah. Suatu saat nanti, aku akan ceritakan semua keindahan itu ke anakku, Mas.