Kate Baggott from Babylune shares what art means to her as part of the Guest post contest here at Artist Hideout:
A character in a story I once wrote, says, “The world is not a beautiful place, you have to work to be beautiful in it.”
The character lives on the same planet as the rest of us. It is, maybe, a place that we experience one way and see another way depending on the amount of news media we consume.
Art, in all its forms, makes me reconsider that gap between what I live and what I — whether consciously or not — just judge. Or dismiss.
And I do mean the AIDS epidemic in Africa, the deaths of countless Iraqi civilians, the returning coffins of soldiers to their native soil, brainwashed suicide bombers and the countless global tragedies that march on around us with only a reaction of accepted powerlessness that is the dulling and numbing of human culture.
Art lets me see something else, something other than human self-destruction. Instead, art shows me the individual and the collective creation of a person, of a people, runs contrary to the dulling, the numbing of us.
I don’t think I react to art. Instead, I reconsider.
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My passions in life are my family, my relationship with God, creativity and expressionism. This blog, decloned, reflects those passions. My belief is that all true creativity comes from the Creator first and foremost.
