the importance of making art

Art can express an idea, a feeling, a memory, or a confirmation of who you are. Within creation you may find balance, wonder, or freedom.

Our idea of ourselves only exists in our minds. It’s intangible and thus it fluctuates. Creating allows us to translate and organize our inner terrain, grounding it in the here and now so we can experience it.

Your art helps to tell your story.

It helps translate into the physical what only exists in your soul.

Art is a tool. It allows us to understand ourselves, empathize with others, and assist in coping with the challenges of our lives. While we spend our time choosing distraction, noise, and busyness, we often forget to pause and enjoy what is fleeting and precious. Art allows us this ability to focus, study, and process a moment. Through it we consider the importance of play, stillness, perspective, rhythm, color, movement.

Art is medicine. Each piece has the ability to heal and shine light into the corners within ourselves. Art can provide comfort, rest, energy, joy, hope, wonder, peace. When art makes you feel a feeling, ask yourself why. Dig into it. Locate where that feeling is in your body and illuminate it.

Art is connection. Quite literally, art connects the objects in the space it resides (furniture, knickknacks) by tying together themes, colors, forms. We connect to its subject, gaining an understanding of suffering or pleasure. We connect to the artist, observing who they were in that exact moment. We connect with each other as participants, viewing, evaluating, or basking in it. Art unites.