Last night, while I was taking the trash to the “trash room” in my apartment complex, I noticed two pictures that someone had thrown out. One is a landscape view of a forest with vivid green leaves and brown tree trunks. The other is an enlarged view of two wine glasses and a bottle of wine. It is classy and elegant, and perfect for our dining room. After careful examination I discovered that there was nothing physically wrong with these pictures. The frames were in tact; the pictures were not ripped… so why did someone throw these out?

After showing the pictures to my roommates I thought about the situation and realized that this was truly of case of “One’s man trash is another man’s treasure.”

People every day throw things in the garbage not realizing how much value it may have to someone else.

This reminded me about the fact that with art, any type of art, what one person thinks is “trash” may be someone else’s “treasure.” A painting that I absolutely adore may have no meaning or appeal to my friend. As we mentioned in one of the classes, a red dot on a canvas to me is just a red dot. However to someone else this may be a masterpiece. I guess this phrase “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure” is true in both the literal and metaphorical senses.

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