The Art Fairy

Let’s talk a moment about Art and our prehistoric Artistic ancestors. I maintain that all humans are by innate nature prone to create some understandable order from disorder- this human tendency is called Simulacra. Without all the Psychological babble it means we as humans want to see something familiar in everything. Rocks and trees, and billowing creatures in cloud formations. The Man in the Moon. Human skulls in the bones of animals.

A sleeping rock Giant’s face or the NH Old Man in the Mountains
Virgin Mary in an oil stained window.
A beloved dead hero in the oozing sap of a local tree.

We love to fashion intentional recognizable some-things from something else-
In prehistoric times a piece of cast off unusually shaped wood is deliberately saved for later and chipped and fashioned by idle hands to make it in to a figure. Maybe to the primitive artist the scrap looks a bit like a fish so he chips here and there at it to make the image more recognizable. Does he think it becomes a real fish? No. Art is purely representational. It is never meant to replace or displace the actual elemental subject. Art is subjective. That means we each see what ever we want to see regardless of what the actual Artist intended. Artists are supremely BRAVE for this universal aspect, certainly not at all fair to the original creator, opens Art up to all and any observer’s interpretation from any Geographical, Geological, Time, Space or Psychological Profile. Art becomes what ever any individual sees in the creation. The Art answer is never right or wrong. All genuine Art leaves the creator’s hand and evolves with the exposure.