For me, and I assume for you, the world, afore confusing at best, has taken a baffling turn and fallen far short of what we had hoped and wanted it to be. Our response? We know we must go on but how?
I offer art; its devoted and fearless makers are well practiced in managing the disconnect between aspirational imagining and the less-than-ideal physical manifestation of their best efforts. Over time, artists come to better understand this ideal whilst simultaneously accepting their flawed relation to it. Paradoxically, this radical and epiphanic acceptance propels the artist forward given the realization that what really matters is the very striving towards the vision. And art maps the way.