MY EXISTENTIAL JOURNEY OF ART: FINAL THOUGHTS

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FINAL THOUGHTS:

 I end by returning to the beginning with my overarching question:

WHAT IS ART? 

And I answer based on my existential journey of art and the meanings I have created from it:

·      It is everywhere.

·      It is internal and external to our beings.

·      It is individual and communal

·      It is expression and communication.

·      It is communion and spirituality.

·      It is contemplative and gentle.

·      It is compelling and visceral.

·      It is light and it is dark.

·      It is autobiographical.

·      It is embodiment.

·      It is history.

·      It is social justice.

·      It is passion.

·      It is work, and it is play.

·      It must exist because we exist.

Art, in all its manifestations and representations, is how we humans try to make meaning out of the beautiful, the bleak, the ordinary and the extraordinary experiences of living in an uncertain and contingent world.