What painting can teach us about seeing the bigger picture

One of the things I love most about painting is that it forces you to move between detail and perspective. It forces you to zoom out. 

You can spend a long time focused on one tiny section. A line. A shadow. A mark. A colour that does not feel quite right. But at some point, you have to step back. You have to look at the whole canvas. The bigger picture. 

Because a painting is not made by one perfect brushstroke. It is built through hundreds of decisions, big and small. Some deliberate. Some instinctive. Some that feel wrong in the moment, but later become part of the composition.

Every mark matters, but no single mark tells the whole story.

I think the same is true in the workplace.