Jackson Pollock

Creative expression. Stimulating, rewarding, frustrating, invigorating. I’m passionate about it, I wrestle with it, and ultimately I love it, and just wanted to give a shout out to those who are struggling or succeeding with it in this moment.

“I want to thank anyone who spends part of their day creating. I don’t care if it’s a book, a film, a painting, a dance, a piece of theater, a piece of music. Anybody who spends part of their day sharing their experience with us. I think the world would be unlivable without art.”(Excerpt from Steven Soderbergh’s Oscar acceptance speech 2001)

A salute to those who put themselves out there, who share of themselves, make themselves vulnerable. Who communicate what it is that fascinates them about the human condition, the animal condition, the vegetable or mineral or alien condition.

Struggling is succeeding, and we are all struggling and succeeding together.

“Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.” (Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without A Country)

I feel better. Don’t you?