When Michelangelo was painting the Sistine Chappel's ceiling he surely thought "I'm grasping a little bit of the sky...". It is a scientific fact that evolution did not provide men with wings to fly. But what makes Science so interesting is that it can't explain everything that surrounds us. It is still to be found the scientifical explanations for what Michelangelo did in a simple ceiling or what Nate Robinson (the New York Knicks player in the picture) did this last Saturday in a basketball court in Las Vegas. Having 1.61 m and dunking in a 3 m basketball hoop is what every single athlete calls A Form of Art.When we listen to a particular good music or read a particular good book or even see a particular good movie we don't pause to question any sort of events, we let ourselves (without even noticing) to go in that flow of experiences. Nate Robinson was preparing himself for something everybody thought and said was impossibble ... he knew it wasn't, so it only took him a few seconds to get ready. He was running down the floor in the direction of a mountain in everybody's eyes ... he saw a simple basketball hoop. And he jumped. There was a strange silence in the air, the same strange silence that there is inside of the Sistine Chappel full of tourists admiring a form of art...
4 comments:
chills...I literally got chills reading that. Thank you!!! I don't know if it's what you intended, but what struck me as I read was the power we all have within us to do the seemingly impossible, if we decide that's what we want to do. Don't let anyone hold you back from touching the sky!
I enjoyed very much the comparison you made between the power of art and the power of sports. They both play an important role when it comes to speak about our emotions as they struck us in a different mode but with the same intensity. Art is understood as an emotion that prolongs in time whereas sports target us with short but also stiking moments of adrenalin.
Keep pleasing us with nice moments of reading!!
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