Umm... about your art.

I want to talk about art. I want to share my views on the subject with you all because that's what artists do. They create and share. Say it with me... "Create and share."

Art is a wonderful thing. It allows mans spirit to round up all that is dear to him/her and express it in ways that help others "get it". The more we learn to "get" each other the better off the human condition is in my humble opinion. The problem has always been that its very hard to make a living when all you do is create art that no one wants to see. So in a sense the problem with art is that most of us don't "get" it and yet you want us to pay for it any way. Apparently when I say "any way" I mean it. Right now there is a group of artists in Tucson who think that their art is so important that every single hotel bed occupant needs to cough up a dollar so that they can continue to create and share art that no one gets. I assume no one gets it because no one is paying to look at it and that brings me to my point.

Imagine this if you will. I am sitting in my house all day cutting paper snow flakes out of newspaper. Imagine it. Lets even say that I am cutting them out poorly. Just the worst paper snowflakes you ever saw. Now lets say that I take one snowflake cut out and put it in your purse and take a dollar in exchange, every time you stay the night in a hotel. Let me say that again. I take one snowflake cut out and put it in your purse and take a dollar. Without asking. Without even telling you that I was in your purse. ALL OF YOUR PURSES AND WALLETS!!! That's what we are talking about here folks. Theft.

Now let me tell you what I think about the paper snowflake cutout. Its not worth a dollar and no one wants it or else some store would put it on a rack and sell it for you at a cost. I love good art. I buy it every single time I spend a dollar. In a real sense, a sense that dead beat artists don't "get", we are all artists. In a capitalistic marketplace everything that you see is art. Every landscaped yard, every hole dug, every telephone pole, the wire that is attached and the sound of a loved ones voice in your ear because it worked. Every carpet floor, every brick wall, every single copy that comes out of Kinko's. All art. The 2% milk in your fridge is art. Someone created the label even. The difference with that art and the snowflake is that people "get" the 2% milk. They all get it. At $2.59 a gallon. They like the art of a carpeted floor so much that they pay $6.00 a yard to walk on it every day. Its amazing. Art is every single thing you see, every sound you hear. Even nature is just gods art. He gave away the creative license to his art so that you can find a way to make your own. And when you do make it your own, make it something I "get" and let me see it so I can see if I want to purchase it or pay to look at it for an hour or drink it or walk on it or whatever. What I ask you kindly NOT to do is this: Please don't put your snowflake cutout in my wallet while taking a dollar from me while I am sound asleep in my hotel room bed. Thank you.

Now everyone send me a dollar because I cut this damned snowflake out!