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The Sasse: Where love stories develop between art and viewer | ||||
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When Art Meets Life |
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When Art Meets Life Art doesn't wait for permission. Neither does life. We often think of creativity as something separate from daily existence, a special activity reserved for designated moments. But watch an artist at work and you'll see something different: life itself becoming the raw material for vision. The intersection isn't a crossing point. It's a merging. When creativity and the will to live fully merge, something fundamental shifts. The drive to create becomes inseparable from the drive to live fully. Not because art makes life more meaningful, but because the same impulse animates both: attention, curiosity, the willingness to see what's actually there. Artists know this instinctively. They understand that the work isn't an escape from life but a deeper entry into it. Every painting, photograph, or sculpture emerges from sustained engagement with the world as it is. This is why art moves us. Art reaches us because it represents someone's choice to remain awake, to notice, to care enough to translate inner experience into visible form. That same choice is available to all of us. We may not all make art, but we can all live with an artist's attention, seeing our days not as obligations to endure but as raw material for something more conscious, more deliberate, more alive. The intersection of art and life motivation isn't a destination. It's a practice. It's choosing, again and again, to meet the world with eyes wide open. photo by: Gene Sasse | Maria del Carmen Calvo in her studio 2015 |
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