“Art and Soul: To Arouse, To Excite, To Inspire”

Roxsane K. Tiernan

           Life is one’s creative project. Its beauty and meaning greatly depend on how and what one makes of it. As such, life becomes the greatest form of art. Being such, it becomes and turns out to be a way or form of expression of thoughts, feelings and emotions, hopes and aspirations, learnings and realizations, joys and sorrows, and just about any possible trait of life’s wonder and perplexities as well. Additionally, human existence acquired enormous media of dealing with its realities. With this being said, life as an art thus becomes manifest in almost every facet of human reality. It is vast and emerges to be everywhere. And one of the seemingly most notable aspects is it's being a considerable effective instrument in making people teach and understand things that cannot be aptly done verbally. In such manner, it opens up a wider and fresher range of meaning along with the plurality of interpretations, as the minds and hearts are opened to appreciate the grandeur and beauty of what life may offer.

           “Art and Soul: To Arouse, To Excite, To Inspire,” is a relevant and apt literature that provides every reader with an artistic and meaningful expression of human life. This masterpiece is a skillful and unique manifestation of life as an art. This creative, thus stirring and stunning work leads the reader to an exhibit of the life learnings of the author through her captivating and simply awesome work of arts in forms of thematic paintings and thought-provoking rhymes and rhythms in her poems. This must-have book situates every reader to a museum of life learnings and tips wherein one can better appreciate one’s existence through the pieces and may go out to the world, to surge up with life, full of enthusiasm and optimism.

           To better appreciate this book, it is of great help to have a grasp of who the author is and under what context she writes of this opus. Roxsane K. Tiernan is an energetic, hardworking, compulsive, seventy-seven year old, exceptional artist of this postmodern times. She is an international educator who travels to Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, and Mexico. Her travels are depicted not in the pictures that she had taken but in her paintings that go along with corresponding life learnings which she altogether expresses in poems. It can be deduced that the beauty of her paintings and the medium she uses in doing them are made more outstanding by being expressions of the culture and a carrier of the people’s way of life therein. Additionally, wherever she travels she soaks up local color, customs, and cultural influences. As can be gleaned, this cross-cultural experiences rightly blend with her lively imagination. The intention is not to impose upon us her learnings but only to expose us to an appreciation of the beauty of life through art and consequently create our own realizations from them. As an artist, her genius is that she does not lead us to simply follow or unthinkingly accept her ways of appreciating life, but she allows us to be more creative and colorful in our efforts to a meaningful existence. Equally important is that she envisions for us to realize that one needs to go out and appreciate life through diversified perspectives. There can be no one-sided reality of life. No single idea can ever capture what life is and that of its beauty and wonder. Hence, the author’s artistic prowess allows us to open our minds to possibilities, to broader horizons of meaning and not of necessities that limit and stagnate us. To avoid the inauthenticities of life, the author underscores the infinitives, to arouse, to excite, to inspire in both her poems and paintings as well. Let us go over significant lines of her poems that highlight this supposed dynamic and meaningful human existence.

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