Showing posts with label why art?. Show all posts
Showing posts with label why art?. Show all posts

Monday, December 1, 2014

Two Questions

Ten Tubes of White


My response to two questions posed by Greg Card, Advancing Art Team Leader:


1. Who are you?
   I am a mystery… the son of a father, the father of a son, and, a friend of God. As a son, a father, and a friend, I am captivated by a love I do not understand- and yet it is a love I embrace. The One who calls me ‘friend’ directs my steps, and, I pray, my brush. It is from this place of mystery I answer the second question.

2. Why are you making art?

   Purpose has been in my thoughts for decades- the underlying issue of motivation. When I was a child, the act of drawing was elemental (as I suppose it is with all children) and without motivation. It was more an act of ‘release’, a letting go of something inside. I understand slightly more now what is being released.  And so, it is from a childlike place I make art… from the joy found in ‘seeing’ the work of my hands to the knowing I have been a participant in the process of creativity. When I make art from a place of authenticity, when I allow the Maker God to direct the ‘made me,’ purpose is made manifest.



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