“What if,” said the artist to the viewer.
What if there was a canvas
that was finished.
And what if the artist of that canvas
showed it to a viewer.
“Wow,” the viewer might say. “That’s stunning.”
“Thank you…that really means a lot,” the artist might humbly respond.

Turning to the piece, however, he shares a chuckling, questioning, coveting of sorts. “How can he call you stunning, having viewed you only so briefly? And with such brief understanding, relative to what we’ve shared?”

“What if though,” the canvas replied, “he could actually see something stunning, despite limited perspective of our whole?”
What if stunning could be found in a color, curve, or even corner of us—versus seeing the whole of our final masterpiece?”

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