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I’m an artist.  Gosh it’s hard explaining what that means.  Of course everybody knows what an artist is.  But my reason for being an artist is a lot different from lots of other peoples’ reasons and from the idea that everybody else who’s not an artist has.  So I’ve been trying to figure out how to explain myself to myself — so I can explain myself to others.

First of all, why explain?  Well, there’s a mystique about art.  No one asks a dentist “why.”  Dentistry is self-explanatory.  But people do ask artists why.  They ask, I think, because every instance of art making is a litle different from every other.  The expectations of what art should be are unsettled.  “I know it when I see it.”  And lots of people find a certain mystery in how art is made, chiefly because few people know how to draw nowadays.  (This was not always so.)  So art shares something in common with magic.

So, who am I?  Why do I paint?  Why should this matter to you?  These are all things I need to figure out.  I hope as I ponder them, the answers will matter to you.  I want you to enjoy the art I make.  I’d love it if you bought my paintings and decided that you loved them so much that you wanted to look at them everyday in your living room.  Because art needs an audience as much as it needs the artist who creates art.  My picture-making is incomplete until that audience — perhaps you — is there helping me realize why I made these things.

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