Truly deep art is most often beyond words. Art should seldom depend upon words. If speechless, it's silence gives expanse to our imagination, our feelings. Here is one of today's often traveled paths. An artist will advocate, with words, concepts and exhibitions that, for instance people, corporations or governments are harming the environment, that we must all act to keep our world healthy: a worthy message. The artist may also educate us with better ways to live well in our environment: useful information.
Yet there is a less traveled path. An artist can also, through his or her art, open to us the beauty of nature, the wonder of the world. If, through the experience of art, we come to deeply feel that humans are a part of nature, that this world is sacred, then we would no more think of harming the environment than of committing suicide. This is not done by preaching that humans are a part of nature, that the environment is sacred, but instead by allowing people to find in themselves a harmony and balance, a deep reverence of nature, to even discover their part in nature, it means allowing people to come to their own understandings of connectivity and sacredness. This art is not the teaching and preaching of rules and ideas, but simply an offering, setting the first stones
for a journey. Most importantly, it means allowing the guest to travel that journey in their own way.
