What is Art?
What is art? What is it? Is it something we can define? Is it something we can put our finger on? Art is so undeniably personal it's very difficult to locate the actual reason why people innately create art. Art comes from the deepest and least understood part of the human soul. The part of the human soul that holds many of the secrets and hidden messages of the human psyche. Art comes from this place. A painting or a sculpture or a poem or song is born from this place. Often many artist's (including myself) create a work of art with no understandable motive behind the creation of it. It's simply created for the sake of creating it. But it's the message or feeling that's melded to these works of art that makes them powerful. Makes them real.
When I
When I paint a picture I paint it because it needs to be painted. I paint it because for some reason I need to express what I'm feeling in picture form. I need to see it. I need to sit back from it and look at it. Let it filter back in to me. Let it filter back and become something new. Something different than what it was when I was letting it flow out of me. I have many of these pictures within me now. These pictures are very special to me. These pictures are me.
What is it that makes me unique? It's my experiences. My beliefs. My upbringing. My place of residence. It's so many things. So many different, subtle things. It's these things that I paint about. The experiences or feelings that I have. I suppose ultimately one could classify my art as Abstract Expressionism. I don't know. What ever it is it certainly is the expression of myself in abstract form. Abstract. Moving. Me.
From To
From to
From you
From me
From three
To it
Today
Too much
To say
I said it
I read it
To paint it
To embed it
I am an artist
I am a man
I am an artist
Create if I can
