The Maker and the Übermensch

What’s in front and what’s behind? Do I long to create beauty because I’m human or am I human because I want to create beauty? Hard to tell. Seems as challenging to answer as “what is art?”. Regardless of the origin of this nagging need, we can probably agree that a world void of our effort to manifest our experiences as “things” would be less empathic.
Perhaps that’s why some of us risk so much to make things. We want to be vehicles of communication. We want to remind ourselves and others that we aren’t all that different and that even when we look back down the corridor of time and see the trophies and carcasses of human expression, that our desires haven’t changed much. We just want to be known, be discovered, and thus become something more. Not like silly celebrities, but more in the Nietzschean Übermensch sense, we’re building on our collective progress and believing that knowing another and being known can make us better versions of ourselves, people who can learn to love this life. — #loveisrebellion // art by Anthony Ciannamea for www.Betroth.me
