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It must be easy for people to believe, today, that we live in a world without mysteries. Without real consequence. Where art — music, writing, art of any kind really — is obsolete. Just pretty things anyone with enough conviction and talent can make. That what you can see with your eyes is the only truth, the only universe. That nothing is worth sacrificing, that only life in the movies can be that kind of epic.
I refuse to believe in this reality, or really, even partake in it. I see that there’s more to life than getting a good job and doing what your told just to ‘make it,’ and frankly, I’ll do what I want. Our world is beautiful (even in it’s ugliness) and I want to see all of it—everything that makes it what it is, from the people, the things they build, the creatures, the scenery, and the things nobody understands.
When we make art, we’re not just preserving the world as it is, we’re continuing it. Everything that matters to us, everything that surrounds us, everything that is, is part of a cycle. Our art continues it. It gives us a purpose and keeps us alive – not physically alive, but alive in the way that you are when you feel it.
This is what I’ve come to learn through the work of other artists I admire. I know that the things I work are hardly worth any such words, but someday I hope I can inspire people the way others have inspired me. If just one person sees my work, someday, and thinks about art and says to themselves I could do this forever, then my life will have been complete. So that’s what I’m working towards. In the meantime, my stuff is going to be pretty mediocre compared to most of the fantastic art on this website, but I’m trying, and I take it seriously, and my friends like it. I think that’s all I can ask for.
