Art is a necessity. Art is problem solving.
Abstract idea
s become visual information. The conversation begins. If the work is good enough, it pulls you away from your usual train of thought…maybe back to something familiar and forgotten, or maybe to a completely foreign place.
That break in your uniform thought – that’s the place where your NEW ideas are hiding. Yes, YOURS. The artist’s job is constant idea presentation. What good is a presentation if you walk away with nothing but old thoughts. The 3, 5, or 25 feet between you and the painting, that’s your work space. Unlike the rest of the world, a painting does not move, does not change.
Continual contemplation leads to new thoughts and new innovations.
The artwork is not the end product. It is the catalyst in a larger process. The new ideas of you, the viewer, are the successful end of art.
