Why art is more important than...

I´m not sure, if art is more important than anything else, but what humans could possibly learn with art, is this:

1. Learn transience with music. When it’s played, it’s over. You can record it, but it still always disappears after each note, each time. Learn to feel the importance of the moment, of a time-lapse, of life, of awareness, of silence… It needs to sound to be there. It can be remembered in the silence.

2. Learn vibration with drawing. Imagine a green 2x2 meter painting hanging exactly, where you are now. How would this change the room? There’s no way, that it won´t change the room. That’s why also paintings with one single abstract stroke or color have a huge impact. It’s not about complexity. (same goes for statues, sculptures)

3. Learn time & touch with hand crafting. - Visualizing versus materializing. - I think this one is pretty clear. It’s just a totally different process/experience to build something real, than to visualize it. Visualizing takes an instant, crafting can take hours. Living vs. imagining.

4. Learn about the invisible with words. - One word can have tons of meanings depending on the words around, depending on the reader, depending on the theme... It’s like a door to a different world. Always just a copy of the perception or fantasy. Its meaning often doesn’t even exist in the material world, but we still believe it, as if it would be the most real thing in the world.

5. Learn release & flow with dance/movement. You cannot think and dance at the same time. Dancing always means ‘going into the world of the body’. You need to ‘forget’ a piece of yourself to be able to dance (or you might win a new sphere outside of control, therefore: learn to release! ;-))

6. Learn existence with acting. When you play someone else, you feel, how different/similar that is from you, so you automatically also feel yourself!

7. Learn the rhythm of life, while experiencing all those different kinds of arts regularly! You just can’t substitute all those experiences with cognitive studies, like at most universities or jobs….

I guess art "is all" a human can experience sensually, mentally, physically,.. I´m sure, the same conditions can be experienced through other situations, too. In that case, they must be art, too? So, is art all? or all art? Is all the same, meaning experience? :)

Wishing you lovely art creations,

Caroline Mirkes