What Is Art to Me

 

It’s all about the process.  The road to get there.  Art isn’t a finished product for me.  Although I do make a lot of art.  It is seeing where the next line leads me.  My friends always ask me “How did you think of that?” or “What were you thinking while you made that?”  My answer is it’s what the line tells me to do. 

 

I’ve had lots of practice following the line.  It started when I was in kindergarten when my teacher had one of my pictures published in a women’s magazine.  Like then, it is someone else that thinks my work is special.  To me, it is just being me.  Of course, I was encouraged to take art lessons, pottery classes, enter contests and shows.  I was just happy making art.  I thought nothing of it, it was like breathing.  Until it wasn’t.

 

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