Yes, I put crayons in a shadow box. Who says that can't be art? It's pretty. It's interesting. It might just be a commentary on stifling the creativity and imagination of youth. (It's not. I just like the way it looks. Sounded good though huh?)
Here's the treasure:
I previously fessed up to clipping all sorts of things from magazines. I'm pretty good at keeping them corralled. Yet, one got stuck in a Maryland Bar Journal from 2007, which I hoped to read apparently. This treasured quote at least validates my consistency:
"When you look back on a lifetime and think of what has been given to the world by your presence, your fugitive presence, inevitably you think of your art, whatever it may be, as the gift you have made to the world in acknowledgement of the gift you have been given, which is the life itself. . .That work is not an expression of the desire for praise or recognition, or prizes, but the deepest manifestation of your gratitude for the gift of life." - Stanley Kunitz
Pretty powerful. Beautiful. As Katz would say, "send your signal" because as Kunitz claims, it's your manifestation of your gratitude for life.
And gratitude is never ugly, nor is it ever insignificant. It is seldom unappreciated. Whatever your art is. . .do it. Embrace it.
Apparently to do otherwise would be ungrateful.
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