ART BY
HANNAH WALTER
Art by Hannah Walter
What is the Value of Art?
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While I always have more questions about life than I have answers for, making art can feel like an honest and brave way of searching. To love excellent art, beautiful and terrible moments of life, and unaltered feelings that often defy articulation, is to love humanity.
We spend our lives chasing after meaning.
​Art is wonderful in its ability to reconnect us to universal emotions that define our significance as human beings. What makes humans worthy of our position in the world? What are we supposed to make of this time that we have? How do we manage the feelings of life and struggle, and why is it worth it to do so?
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Artist Statement
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To me, art-making feels like searching: It becomes an open invitation for the world to come in and have its effect on me in the hopes I may learn some truth or essence of life and savor it in time before it slips away.
Through my mixed media paintings and sculptures, I approach coping with struggle and doubt, anxiety and loneliness. This often results in art that relates just as much to healing and joy. My understanding is that maybe those feelings which we find difficult are just as precious and worthy of our attention as the more pleasant ones: that they make the pleasant ones more potent.
I believe that, as an artist, I should make work with as much enthusiasm, honesty, and admiration for humanity as I can, and that anything done with passion, energy, struggle, and sincerity is worth doing, even in the fog
of doubt.
