What drives me to create art?
There are three main things that drive me to create art:
- Art has the potential to change people’s emotional state. Certainly a room or an office without any art in it is not ideal. I personally find blank walls to be a bit depressing. I would like to elevate people’s mood when they look at my art.
- The thought of working in the wrong job where I have to sell something that I’m not truly interested in, where someone constantly tells me what to do all the time and I have to ‘obey’ them like some kind of robot slave does not really appeal to me. So far I have not been able to find the ‘right’ job for me. So I feel that creating and selling art is one of the few things left for me to do, my calling, my so-called “ikigai”.
- I know life is transient, one day I will die, and I would like to leave the world some kind of ongoing ‘legacy’.
Wouldn’t it be great if even one of my artworks becomes famous one day, a bit like Van Gogh’s bedroom in Arles, and people light up and glow inside when they finally get to see it displayed in a museum? That’s what I’m striving for.
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