At the basis of art is a sense of healing, as it makes an exchange go on between self and other. An individual can be a system through whom some larger influences are moving, physically and spiritually. I see matter and spirit as woven. How we act with the material is directly related to spirit and health.
Art can be a meditation.
This heals me with its continuity and makes what might seem disconnected, be deeply continuous. It has been source for real joy. Some of my strongest motivation and healing has been in the spirit of making offerings through art to creation itself. This asks that the person be clean spirited and very honest. I sense an old river that makes fertile and replenishes the collective.