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What Makes An Artist An Artist
And for that matter, what makes art art? I think an artist is anyone who speaks in and interprets the vocabulary of spirit. And anything created in the sprit of spirit is art!
Artists live in the underground tunnels of humanity. Expressing art is a unique dialect of communication that weaves existing threads of knowledge with new understanding. Artists live in CONSTANT CONTINUATION. This flux enables the artist to see the world differently – not rightly or wrongly, but differently. Artists seek to make unusual connections. X-loring relationships is a central theme in the process mind of the artists.
This CONSTANT state of awareness, called PROCESS, is a bridge. Whether with a paintbrush, creating cakes or saving lives, the artist seeks to move something out — to WORK OUT some thing that needs re-touching, re-membering. The artist’s eye and hand are like a needle and thread, stitching ideas into workable form. In their art, artists stitch towards connection– new and old, found and unfound, in hopes of better serving the planet they inhabit and the planet that inhabits THEM.
Artists live within the walls of the inner working of their senses. The projections form a screen of their minds onto the art they create, to express how feel and see the world. I find art more intriguing when I understand the thinking behind it. My relationship to art is constantly evolving. Right now I am xploring thinking and how that stirs art. The InForm (what informs the artist) is as compelling and THE FORM and part of the art of the art!
The purpose of art is to make you see, think and enjoy. The goal of the artist is to enrich - through their special sense of seeing and sensing all forms of beauty - represented and underrepresented…
