Artists are different from the rest of us. Like us, a good percentage of their lives are spent in spectacularly mundane activities like buying groceries, chauffeuring children, doing dishes and trying to locate their phone. Unlike the rest of us, they are able, occasionally, to dip into the transcendent - to create. Miraculously, in living their lives, they are able to string these two dramatically different states of mind into a consistent whole.
As we have discovered from talking with the artists around us...what's remarkable is that with very few questions, or no questions at all, the most extraordinary insights spill out - about life, about art, and about how we are connected in some primal way. We have chosen artists over any other group that may have stories just as beautiful to tell, because we are interested in art and fascinated by creation and the amazing individuals who are in various stages of mastery of this phenomenon.
The artists in this book exhibit creativity, imagination, exquisite skill and an arc of a story. Best of all we know them. They are our friends.
As we have discovered from talking with the artists around us...what's remarkable is that with very few questions, or no questions at all, the most extraordinary insights spill out - about life, about art, and about how we are connected in some primal way. We have chosen artists over any other group that may have stories just as beautiful to tell, because we are interested in art and fascinated by creation and the amazing individuals who are in various stages of mastery of this phenomenon.
The artists in this book exhibit creativity, imagination, exquisite skill and an arc of a story. Best of all we know them. They are our friends.
Don Minnick Jan Fitzhugh Jim McJunkin