The Long View

Ultimately, all art is found art.  We find our subjects, or they/it finds us. We find our materials.  We find our inspiration.

Still, I enjoy what Howard Finster (http://www.high.org/Art/Exhibitions/HowardFinster.aspx) (http://www.finster.com/)  describes in the sign he created:

The work to the left by a Bamama, Mali artist was seen yesterday at the High Museum in Atlanta, Georgia (http://www.high.org/Art/Exhibitions/African-Art-Building-the-Collection.aspx).

The description of its purpose and creation is included here.

My work, although not intended as ritual or sacred, is also 'accumulative'.  If I sense an empathetic link to the Bamama artist, it is because I recognize that we are the hands that make the work and I feel that all artists experience the world through their medium.