Over the last few years/decades I have been bless enough to travel this beauty nation of ours and even several countries and spoken and walked with several Artists of various types and I been lucky to call several of them my friends. In my opinion I seen some of the greatest forms of raw talent displayed before my very eyes some never heard of others actually quite popular in their circles of art. One such friend challenged me constantly to define and refine what art is to me, until one day these words were born. I hope you see the visual I am trying to share.

Art in all its forms
Is the window into possibility;
The perspective of an idea;
Spark of Change;
The Abstract of that which is life itself;
The essence of emotion captured in time;
The Witness of all;
and the messenger to the living.

Thus My Friends;
To be Alive!
Is to experience the message;
To Live!
Is to Take part;
To Transcend!
Is to become;

Art is more then its medium;
Art is more then its fans;
Art is more then the "man";

it is a way of life;
a record of things gone by;
it is the only freedom that remains;
even though the "powerful" has made gains;
beware of the society where no free artist remains;

Rob Lannan
2014
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