Why indeed...

I suppose that why I make art has several facets to it. Of course, when I started making art as a wee little child, I made art because it was fun to make stuff. Many year later, it is still fun to make stuff, so of course this is part of the answer. It is exciting to lose myself in a project, to be so involved with what I am doing that time disappears for awhile. It is exciting to stand back and look at something I've just made and realize that Hey! I made that! At the bottom of it all is the simple satisfaction of being a human being making things.

But of course that's not all. It has also serves as a tool that I use to try to understand the world. Why do people do the things they do? What do people want? Art is what happens while I am pondering, reading, researching. When I send objects or installations out into the world, seeing how people react and how they choose to relate to them is another terrific learning experience about my fellow human beings....

And of course, it is also my way of getting my two cents in the grand conversation about What it Means to Be Alive in the World Now.

It's been great reading the posts on this and learning about everyone else's thoughts on this.