Capturing the vision

Have you ever taken the time to see? To really take in what you see in front of you? Have you ever tried to take it in? All the colours of the sky, the leaves, the branches or the buildings and the notebooks, the concrete or the sand and flowers or the water.

I try to capture the way colour moves. The way it gets taken to my eye. The way I see it, but no matter how much I stay focused on one part of the immensity, I simply can’t capture all it is. 

I see the blues and the whites in the clouds, but while I perceive that I find my eyes looking at the trees that are just a little bit to the right. When I focus on the blue, I find the blue is not just blue. It is more than one blue, but I see it before I notice it. I see it before I can even label it. I notice the way the clouds part in colours of grey, taupe, blue, purples and oranges. Al blending together making it almost impossible to even name one color. The way one colour affects the other creates a whole other colour. If the colors just were in a different order I might not even see these differences. I might stare and see what I don’t see. 

I try to notice before I see, but the speed of my eyes is a miracle I can’t catch up to. I see, but I don’t see. I follow my eyes to a space I might be able to name. But if I can’t I will still see. I still catch the shapes without naming them, they remain there. Just as powerful, just as real. Staring at the lines in the wooden table before me. All these colours are beside one another. I could almost catch myself seeing them, but then the moment was gone. I see before I see. I notice late. So I silence and I just see. So I may see more and see all I can see in that one moment before I notice and name all I see. Because it might be only half of all that is real. As all I see is half real. There is magic in my eyes. When they catch just the slightest light they catch colors I can’t even say. 

There is magic in seeing, so I will take time to really try to see. I might be able to find the smallest part of the beauty my eyes catch, but it is worth every second of watching.