The next Big Think...

The only thing that separates humans from all other animals is our ability to create art. It is our need to communicate. Our hunger to explain. And our overpowering want to connect with others. A humans being purpose isn't to merely survive physically, like most other animals who are driven by a hunger food in order to sustain themselves. We need to feed our minds and our souls, not just our bodies. The meaning of life can very well be simply to survive it, but I don't think humans will ever accept that (even if that's all there is to it). It's our desire to find meaning (even in places where there is no meaning to be found). We want something more. And we get it - at least artists do. Artists embody this human need, hunger, want and desire. It exists in everybody but it's more powerful for us artists. I don't think this makes us more special (although we like to think it does). I think it simply makes us more human. More weak. More imperfect. More vulnerable. More sensitive... the list goes on and on. Because if life is truly about survival, and it's survival of the fittest, than where does that leave us weak, sensitive and vulnerable artists? It leaves us in the studio creating, because that's all that we can be certain of.