I came to art out of the need to resolve personal crisis. I have had no training. I work at my mosaics not so much to create images as to find myself. This lends urgency and determination to the work that obviates the need for patience. A friend once said that I was putting the shards of myself back together. I view art as spiritual practise, as a form of prayer or meditation, as a means to personal redemption. The thing about 'making' is that the thing you are making makes you back and so the creator is created by the creation. This is why we pass up the opportunity to make, or have to drag ourselves to the studio, because art concentrates growth and growth hurts, despite the healing that making stuff affords us. |
