Thursday Thoughts...

“An artist is an explorer” 

Henri Matisse

These words ring so true for me. My sense is that no artist really knows what they are doing, where they are going or where they will land. I think most creative folk I know head off with a bit of a kitbag, some tools, a vague idea of the direction they're headed in and then follow their maps and their instincts and end up somewhere special.

Matisse seems to suggest that artists head into new territory - and discover things. That they find ways of seeing a place anew and afresh; or that they look deeper into the cracks, the dark, the bits hidden underneath. They go places that other folk don't, and they see things that other folk don't see.

Sounds about right to me.