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The Sasse: Where love stories develop between art and viewer | ||||
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Art's Contradictions |
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As artists, we live with a beautiful contradiction. We work with grand ambitions to move people, to capture life, to express what words cannot, yet we know our reach is limited. We can't fix the world, but that's never been the point. Makers do two essential things: "First, we admit they can't straighten the world out." It's a humbling admission, but one that frees us to focus on what we can do. And what we can do matters deeply. "Real change happens on the level of the gesture," Cheryl Strayed reminds us. "It's one person doing one thing differently than he or she did before." This is where a maker's power lives—not in sweeping transformations, but in precise acts of intention. We make at least one little part of our world exactly as it should be. When you mix that color just right, when you capture the light exactly as you envisioned it, when you capture the moment that holds everything you felt—that's what you're doing. Finding the line that brings your drawing to life, stepping back to see that something has shifted from ordinary to meaningful. And something happens in that moment. Something shifts inside you too. The act of making, of bringing order to chaos, of giving form to feeling, feeds something essential in us. It quiets the noise. It makes us more fully ourselves. Creativity isn't just what we give to the world; it's what keeps our souls alive and growing. And sometimes, when someone pauses before what you've made, when they see something you didn't even know you'd put there, your corner touches theirs. That's when the gesture becomes larger than itself. |
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