Belief

Everybody believes in stuff. Everybody has beliefs. They are funny things. Sort of like personal truths. Your passion and enthusiasm to create art is always by necessity underwritten by your belief system. You wouldn’t put pencil to paper if you didn’t believe in something. The resultant art, if produced for reasons deep within, is catharsis in a visual form. Not such a big jump of logic from there to realising that all artistic creation done for personal reasons is the beliefs created by your lifes experience brought onto this waking plane of reality for others to see and experience in a tangible form. In fact the definition of catharsis itself, a compelling desire to express your beliefs to the other humans. Gazing upon these personal cathartic expulsions, the rest of the humans may very well have their own beliefs formed, altered, challenged, amplified, added to, or challenged by the experience. Not from you using words in their presence to specifically explain or implore what you believe but by their own exposure and subsequent interpretation of your visual art whether you are in