It doesn't have to happen painstakingly, it only has to happen.
I'm out to make a buck, but I want do it my way. My way is: You search. You identify and isolate whatever little element of humanity - whichever itty bitty tuft of the stuff we have in common - and you nail it down. You study, you explore. You elaborate.
I come from the suburbs. I come from Saturday cartoons and public education. I come from crushes on girls and backward hats and cheeseburger patriotism - but I also come from the gene pool. Your gene pool, our gene pool.
Art is testament to unspeakable relatedness. It is just the droppings of a certain kind of animal. We all know the smell of shit. We can all see sickness and health.
I don't think you need to be trained to experience a sight, even though I am. There are things that are fundamental and I choose to play among them. Or at to least seek them out as they occur in my one own, specific, brain.
There is no one underlying, unifying theory that will ever do for long and so I don't work as though there were. We are here to wander and wonder and hopefully find the good things that are already there. Who knows, maybe create some good in the process.
If there is something here that you like, I'm glad. Tell me or tell someone else. I'd like to trade encouragement for encouragement - and art for money if that's what you've got.
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