perhaps painting, drawing, writing
capturing, remembering
inventing, building
planning
planting
creating
something new
is also
for the artist
a coded sort of
self-analysis
an irrepressible subconscious
attempt to understand untangle
unwind
reconfigure
long term effects of helplessness
confusion misunderstanding
while afloat in an existence
formed to bear
pain
loss
unfairness
lost horizons
and death
to unclench forgotten fear
find ways to retranslate
mislabeled feelings
to forgive
poorly understood people
find and capture in a moment
of personal expression
simple truth
and some of the complexities that are the roots
for each
to find and capture for a moment
in creative works
the peace
of being the peace of simply taking in
what is
to find ways to trust artistic motivations
impulses
and movement
when creating
to extend
self
create new languages
new mediums
of
self
and if as some propose
we are each of us
in some way
infinite through space and time
and [ somehow in ] other dimensions
so strange they have no
common name
perhaps art is the forever game
discovering each time
what we are
what we were
and what we
might be