He screamed like a girl when the bee bee pellet hit him in the butt, but in that moment I didn't really care to wait for him or to be identified in the halo of porch light illuminating the front yard like a football field. I sprinted into the night, leaving twelve rolls of toilet paper unravelled in Mr. Bliten's oak tree, gently waving in the summer breeze. We had dyed each roll a different colour and couldn't wait to see our project the next morning. Yeah, well, we saw it alright. It, and thirty hours of community service picking up trash along Highway 52. So much for appreciation for artistic expression.

Perception and emotion are the core components that reflect the mind state of the artist as the project materialises into visual form. Whether a photo, an abstract form, sculpture, painting, drawing, or building - it is inevitable that the art piece as a whole will elicit some degree of the same or similar feelings which the artist intended on relieving themselves of no matter how subtle or extreme. Shapes, colours, textures, mediums, are all selected for specific reasons. Each folds around an emotional state in a manner that captures its elusive third dimensional value into that which can be easily perceived by human touch, taste, sound, sight, and smell. Perceptions that feed the emotional soul.

Art cannot have an effect on perception and emotion that is inversely dissimilar to the artist and observer alike. Those who seek out the art they choose to look at are gazing at a reflection of their many moods as they ebb and flow across an experiential continuum within a personality construct whose artistic soul would delight in sharing their own portfolio of imaginative projects with their favourite artists. Mine would have to be imaginative. I don't know if Van Gogh could keep from snorting coffee through his nose when I show him my impressive gallery of stick figure drawings.

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