by Judith Campanaro

Created on: March 11, 2007   Last Updated: October 31, 2008

Thinking Out Loud

I just finished watching the movie "Gia". She amplified the angst of life the anguish we are often afraid to feel. In our denial we move from place to place, relationship to relationship, trying to run from the empty hole in the heart that longs to know what it will take to fill that space and finally bring peace. Is this deficit trauma? Maybe, but the problem is how to define the deficit. As an artist everything is bigger than life. I've only just begun to realize the enormity of that statement and accept the realization that I must accept myself for who I am and give thanks. Once you understand the pain you can live with it. Anguish is inevitable. It just happens. Hopefully we will have the moxie to make mistakes and learn. And so what does this have to do with an article about art?

The sameness of mass communications of products has left it to art to lift us, give us a vision, a glimpse of what might be. Ultimately what separates one artist from another is the power to formulate concept. If a work of art gives the viewer a glimpse of what life is like they will respond to it. Art by nature is a substance of personal opinion. Art is created for the sake of its own impact not to explain within itself. Art is a form of recreation in which one unburdens one's heart and soul, dissipates care and gets rid of melancholy. Sometimes just recording the melancholy dissipates the burden.

Artists strongly trust and spontaneously act on their intuition within the bounds of their art form. In this sense, they are extremely creative and often productive but they don't have the same degree of self trust and willingness to back their feelings with action in other areas of their lives. Sound familiar? Maybe we are all artists in one form or another. And the truth is whatever script we make for ourselves is our own script. Creativity is the encounter of the intensely conscious human being with his or her world.

Whether it be viewing, creating, teaching, collecting - art in any form feeds the soul and empowers the psyche. A few small experiences of the meaningfulness of life everyday will do more for our souls than a single experience. So we live, one day at a time and we take the good with the bad and we keep going. Such is life. Artist or not, if you're truly a rebel at heart (and aren't we all) don't run away from your dreams. JUST DO ART! in whatever form it presents itself.

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