Arts and Entertainment Articles
posted on 20 August 2010
I really thought to give it up....why waste time and materials making what I briefly considered efforts in futility? A constant striving, never arriving at the ultimate goal - a cogent visual statement. While many consider art as merely something like classic art canvas prints or something like that, I conisder art to be your own personal statement.
Let me give you some background.
Like many, I was born an artist. Always curious about the world, testing perception on my own terms and with the tools I had. I achieved some moderate successes, and exhibited, traveled and taught. At the point in life when I felt everything was beginning to coalesce, a rupture occurred. My life and business partner of twenty five years died after a terrible and wrenching year long run in and out of hospitals, then my own diagnosis (typical for a caregiver) of an incurable and nasty cancer. Why I had not chosen to devote my precious life to the improvement of my fellow human's lives?
I had some time left, what could I accomplish to better the world I felt I would be leaving momentarily? (Big drama, huh? guess you had to be there). Art had taken a back seat in my brain. There is always hope - with the strength, love and support of my dear new husband, I survived a bone marrow transplant, and have a good second chance. Why I am telling you all this is, through the whole looking death in the face event, what kept me coming out of the hospital bed, and walking down the corridors was the ART on the walls. Not endlessly repeated prints of sacharine landscapes, but ART. This incredible hospital has a curator, and a great collection of works by local and nationally known artists. Nancy Mee is one of my favorite and has a good presence in the collection. Her work with glass and images representative of the body were well suited and sited thoughtfully. With renewed passion, I am inspired to continue working in the greatest accomplishment of culture, and hope to personally contribute to the power of human expression beyond the cogent visual statement. |
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