Curving and Swerving through Life

Life’s twists and turns, ups and downs, beginnings and ends, are each displayed in AJ LaGasse’s Samba as flashes of bright strokes contrast the smaller plain streaks of differing, yet varying colors. Demanding and attracting, eye catching, red darkened by shadows fills empty space that continues the journey of life, highlighting, reminding and outlining prominent events of a certain story, a single lifetime. Watery blue, calming and flowing, ranging from light to medium to dark, covering life’s continuous path, brings together numerous lives to witness. Dark, black, lacking light that begins to fade into large bloody, bright red strokes, something is coming, a birth, a new small being, the true beginning of youth, thought only a child, life is filled with happiness and continual shades of red until, maturity, grayed at first grows lighter and louder as life gets more thrilling, a young adult experiences life’s greatest and worst moments, getting older, wiser, life is good and happiness is abundant, memories are made, older, life is quickly and slowly changing, older, fading, forgetting, sickness, dying, skin paling and wrinkling, shrinking, growing smaller, thinner, fading, forgetting, dying, seeing yet again the demanding red that reminds, the end, no more room, forgotten, invisible, gone. Life is so quick, filled and overcrowded with numerous events, each with there own meanings, pushing and pulling life into differing directions, only to bring a single “story” to its ultimate end. LaGasse curved and swerved through life never halting, using contrasting colors and ranging strokes backed with plain red and calming blue to continue life even as one is ended.