Life is…

There is one thing that unites all visual artists, primarily painters and sculptures -  it is the inability for two dimensional digital images to capture the essence of their work. The richness, tone, nuance, and dimensionality are somewhat lost on the screen. Every painter cringes when having to rely on the jpeg version of a piece they have been conceiving and laboring over after they reach some sort of inner satisfaction of completeness. To paint is to pull inward, drawing up the influences and tangential experiences that represent the action. The process itself pushes outward, expelling the energy and leaving the resulting residue in its finality. The cause of the push and pull is the sum of all the literature known to mankind. It is birth and death. It may be neither good nor bad to the individual. In the end it can only be an appreciation.