Artist Dianne Albin on Meaning-Making
{Excerpted from book: The Van Gogh Blues: The Creative Person’s Path Through Depression, by Eric Maisel, PhD.}
For an artist, it is a driven pursuit, whether we acknowledge this or not, that endless search for meaning.
Each work we attempt poses the same questions. Perhaps this time I will see more clearly, understand something more.
That is why I think that the attempt always feels so important, for the answers we encounter are only partial and not always clear.
Yet at its very best, one work of art, whether produced by oneself or another, offers a sense of possibility that flames the mind and the spirit, and in that moment we know this is a life worth pursuing, a struggle that offers the possibility of answers as well as meaning.
Perhaps in the end, that which we seek lies within the quest itself, for there is no final knowing, only a continual unfolding and bringing together of what has been discovered.
To create, to express the depth and experience of our consciousness of being alive, all the while knowing that death hovers nearby, that is what we do.
Dianne Albin - continued in article The Task of Meaning-Making.
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