#17. MESSAGE(S) (Reflection While Painting “Buon Appetito!”)
Painting—Rice Snacks
Reflection: MESSAGE(S)
Art is whatever you, as artist, or others, as viewers/critics, may want it to be—at the time of creation or afterwards. All kinds of purposes can be served by what’s been made visible. Whether metaphors and symbols are evident or not, various kinds of measures are made clear, from within and without—religious, political, idealistic, romantic, aesthetic, or? Art has an unrivaled ability to give voice to secret yearnings, hidden agendas, and almost-forgotten dreams. Art puts artist and viewer, alike, in places they might never travel in real life. It wets the appetite and makes anything seem possible—at least in the moment.
