Almost ten years ago around this time of the year I was invited to a wonderful art show at the Cast Iron Lofts in New Jersey and I met an Artist there who took me on many adventures after that, around that place and also in other areas of New Jersey. One of the places where he showed me was right around the corner on Coles Street where there were murals painted all over the walls and structures near the embankment and the overpass, and I remember thinking every time he showed me some new place or space how awesome Jersey City is because of the wealth of art that is there to enjoy.
Yesterday when I was on a long walk to the other side of Jersey City to go to a favorite grocery store I don't often take the time to go to, I walked back on Brunswick Street and realized I was going to be walking right through another area filled with murals and graffiti art that I'd found near that first area I'd been shown on Coles Street. This other place is underneath the overpass, and I'd stumbled into it one day a number of years ago. I walk everywhere that I can and when I'm walking and I have the time, I just walk wherever the Spirit leads. On the day that I'd found this section under the overpass filled with murals and graffiti art I was in awe, and then later some of the Artists who I've met over the years started posting about their own visits to that place and the work that they and their friends were creating there.
On a beautiful September day when the weather still feels like summer is with us but the fall has begun with its golden light, walking with Art all around just feels right. Living and walking with Art all around always feels right to me actually, and taking this walk on this beautiful day to see what was new in this beautiful place hidden away where Artists meet and work together and alone, creating and inspiring and being inspired and making an outdoor place under the overpass that would usually seem dark be filled with light, is one of the things that makes me so excited about Jersey City and so happy that this is a place where I've come to know so well. With so much gratitude to the Artists I've met who have invited me into their worlds and have shown me the places to go, and to those who create in these places and spaces and bring so much unexpected and breathtaking, transporting beauty to us all.
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