“As if it were written for me.”
September 24, 2008
Post by Toni van Gils, Rutherfordton, NC
THE PAINTER ALEX BIGNEY’S UNIQUE WAY of embracing life both in and out of the average forms many of us recognize, has reached new heights in Talking to Tesla.
I have enjoyed Alex’s paintings for years, and have always felt that he was capable of doing something wonderful to enhance the way people view life. But beyond his painted images, Talking to Tesla is a story that had to be told; experience that had to be shared; trueness that cannot be accepted as anything but true—if that’s the way you wish to see it. The amazing thing is that if you want to see it another way, it can be that, too. Such is the genius of a great book—it has the power to accommodate each of us. I can take what I need.
In fact, I couldn’t put it down once I picked it up! The pages of Talking to Tesla contain beauty, understanding, and emotion on every level—as if it were written just to me. And I like to believe that it was.
The Artist’s Dream Journal part is an amazing story from the heart of an ordinary person, someone like myself (I’d swear that’s my youth he vividly describes in those chapters) put down on paper using vowels and consonants rather than Alex’s more familiar paints—from the heart of a spouse, a parent, a grandparent, a son or daughter, brother or sister, painter, writer, a dreamer of dreams, and most important of all—someone fully participating in life. And then, underneath it all—there’s the beautiful child.
I have read many inspiring books that have made me think and rethink my own life on deep levels. Talking to Tesla is pure magic—an illusion that feels very, very real. My own heart will never be the same.
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