Art is Recognition

Sometimes, when you see (or hear or read or taste) the work of others, the sensation goes right to your heart. That happens to me when I see images I wanted to have made myself but did not yet manage to do so. At such moments, admiration bubbles up.and I know I found a masters.  
A new revelation of this kind are the portraits of Lita Cabellut. Chapeau!
It will take me ages to even come close to her heels, but that's ok. It's good to have ideals.
Sometimes I recognize my own path in the route of others. That happened recently when I saw this work by Serafin Santiago, Gosh, so much power, 

​and this cloudy work in pogress