59th street subway

I did not know that i was in for a surprise when I decided to go home for the weekend. I needed to get to the West Side and completely unintentionally I happened to be in the 59th street subway station transferring from the 6 to the Q.  As I turned a corner to walk up a flight of stairs, there it was; a HUGE mural of tiles colored in all of the basic colors. I remembered then that Professor Bergman had posted a blog about a new installment in the 59th St station. It was so unexpected for me to walk right past the mural because I had forgotten that this wonderful art existed. I stopped in the flood of people to take a picture of the mural and I'm sure that people who saw me stop to admire were also caused to stop.  The fact that I had stopped in front of a wall in the subway was peculiar even to me, but I saw that there was art on it and I observed that people looked at me, staring at the wall and then they themselves stopped to investigate the art that they otherwise would have probably walked right by. I found this experience invigorating because it reminded me that art is everywhere and many times in the places where you least expect it.