Category: The Write Stuff

What is art? Is it necessary? Why?

We’re currently seeing how necessary art is when we are forced to be alone and apart from gatherings. We need it for psychic relief and spiritual renewal. Artists synthesize forms and sources of knowledge combined with imagining to generate integrated knowledge and collective, expansive possibilities. Art provides connection to our buried past; it expresses what is difficult to say and dwells in the unknowing, in mystery and wonder, as a means to move us forward, to live and thrive, to deeply know ourselves and others.

What’s been most important to your writing: education, or the real world? Why?

I guess the real world or my version of the real world is most important to my writing. As we are each subject to our own perspectives, it’s these unique views that define an author’s authentic voice. It is the authenticity in another piece of writing that I am most attracted to as a reader and feel a desire to strengthen my authentic voice as a writer.