Art’s Circle of Life
Contributed by Katherine Baker
Art contains every human emotion and human drama known. The more painful the struggle, the more value it holds and the more awe-inspiring it becomes. More than words written or pictures painted, truth is found in art’s deepest depths, as the human spirit fights and crawls to endure. The spirit that cannot be confined, the spirit that cannot be contained, is released into humanity and finds its way.
Journeying through our realm of existence, art reveals, shares, and writes itself upon human faces. Art is a powerful and frustrating struggle. Sometimes it hurts; sometimes it elates, as it describes and defines how we are all unique, and yet still all alike. From the arduous journey of the life we have each formed unfolds the life that has formed us—our contribution to the Circle of Life.
To be experienced by all, belonging to all, is the beauty and birth of an emerging truth, our shared universal truth. That is real, genuine art.