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Why make art? What is the point to making a painting, print, drawing, sculpture, installation, costume whatever the hell you might be making? When I was a teacher at Pratt Institute I never professed to having an answer to that question. The reason I don’t profess is because I don’t have an answer to that question because I believe the answer is in constant flux. Artists are always making work which is their refelction on the woes and beauty of the world. Or they could be making work which is commentary on the world. Or they could be making work which is neither commentary or refelction rather a creation of a world. This is where I believe I am right now.

I wish to create a world with my art, a place viewers can become lost in and attain a certain sense of onenesss with the objects. I wish for my objects to have a lasting impression on their viewers so that they might find them more interesting the tenth time they see them then the first. I believe to do this I must leave behind the use of commentary, representation and refelction to become completely absorbed in the act of creating my own world.

So do I know why we should make art? No. I only know why I should make art. Art can be so many things from subtle to obvious, from beautiful to ugly, from subversive to propaganda but the one thing it can’t be is made in void the artist must always experience the push and pull of experience in order to continue to create.