Day 27

'A Tree Somewhere' Pen on Paper

I had some extra art work on today that I need to finish by tomorrow, which will be very time consuming so decided to squeeze in a quick drawing during lunch at work. So took a little walk outside and happened upon this tree, figured that was as good a subject as any especially as I've spent countless weeks at work staring at a computer screen... so I suppose that is the reason behind today's 'draw'.

It struck me as I was sitting that a mound of wet grass staring at a rather large tree and sketching frenetically as people walked by, that this type of behaviour possibly may have come across as a little strange to say the least. It then got me thinking that out of context, the behaviour of many of the people that we see each day could be seen in a similar light, we often see things out of the ordinary and are quick to judge... at times it's hard not to. We have all come in contact with people that we would consider as being eccentric for one reason or another, however what we may consider not to be normal someone else might say is perfectly logical... so then could it be said that normality is subjective, as it depends upon the persons involved? There is also a slightly different perspective involved here as well, that being of the person responsible for the actually behaviour in question. Again there is something inside them that decides that their behaviour is appropriate, is logical and is completely normal so to them in the context they have created it all makes sense. To give an example my brother often told me of whilst travelling to work each day he would see the same woman, at the same time, pushing a pram down the same stretch of road... in rain, hail, snow or shine she was there. Not particularly strange in that context by any means, well other than the notion that she was taking a baby for a walk even in adverse weather. However when you find out that she was actually pushing a small dog in the pram rather than a baby it takes on a complete different direction and now begins to verge on the eccentric side of the scale. To me this behaviour is overly eccentric but there will be people who know her or read this who will for one reason or another see this as nothing out of the ordinary. For the most part strange or eccentric behaviour is all about perspective, it depends which shoes your feet fill as to how logical or absurd something can be.