Life Worth Living

chipping and hacking sawing and sanding this is the life of a creator these are his sounds a cacophony of hustle and bustle a primal link to the past and an eye on the future ever striving for a land bridge between the two like ancient explorers of the human condition back and forth to and fro sweeping arm movements packed with energy eye's steady and intense gaze resting on the immediate standing on the precipice, the gateway of creativity ready to push the boundaries of the possible one more time forging potentials in the foundry of insight molten heat emanating from the source of inspiration leaving trails across le atelier in vibrant, living color once more into the fray..... a chance to become something more a demigod, replete with all the powers to cast off these earthly shackles and take one's rightful place amongst the Apollonian and Dionysian pantheon standing shoulder to shoulder with the likes of Giacometti, Rodin and Michelangelo basking in their eternal aurora of shimmering crystalline streaks of productivity leaving traces of ocular delight along the way but always leaving something to be desired just out of reach and unattainable, alluding to greater grandeur scaling the philosophical peaks and traversing the political spectrum to unify the scattered, to join the fragmented, to give voice to the oppressed saying something with nothing directing the viewer's eye with subtleties emphasizing silence with space and void painting and glazing soldering and welding hands steadily guiding and grinding unearthing the inert qualities laying dormant, waiting to be revealed commanding that the materials speak and be known this is a life worth living this is the life of a creator