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      Here follow an assortment of my recent musings on the phenomenon of artmaking, an impractical enterprise at worst and the most amazing and entrancing thing ever at best, whether the artist is three or ninety-three. Motivations and objectives are considered as well as the actuality of mark-making itself.

      However impractical, choosing to make art is a life essential for some, the ones we call artists and the ones who call themselves artists but refrain from broadcasting their avocations. Pursuing art can take many forms, from studio work to commercial endeavor to solo thought projects, from art teaching to art watching to collaborative production processes. Artmaking can be very selfish; but without relentless dedication there can be little worth showing to anyone else, let alone to an audience called to an exhibition. Continuing the dedication while lacking significant appreciation and remuneration is commonplace and often dispiriting but can also be freeing because the activity of artmaking will remain unencumbered by particularized expectation. Dedication to an unrewarded objective, to the goal of crafting one-of-a-kind art objects whether headed for temporary public display or a lonely basement cupboard, is usually incomprehensible to those not bitten by the "art bug." But that objective, however unworldly, is key to the artist.

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