Clara Liu

To me, an artist is a seer - an observer with a gift to see his surroundings with clarity, a gift to note that vision into a form. Art in itself has no intrinsi...c value. Its value is in its vision. The issue of the value of art should be this – is what the artist sees powerful and worthy to someone? We are little invisible dots on Planet Earth, and Earth is an invisible dot in the universe. So how is meaning objective? From which perspective is it objective? I believe deep down inside we want to feel we matter. Maybe if we grow bigger – get a Ph.D, change the environment, change the universe… somehow the world would feel more of our presence. Maybe then someone would care. But this is the real picture of existence I see: I am one of many in a crowd of little “me”s. I learnt to paint for one of the little me at a time and paint what I am given. Sometimes I draw these miniature people on a massive canvas and I ask, is that really what we look like? But really, which one is more accurate – a me filling up the whole space, or a me in a universe billions and billions of light years wide? Size doesn’t matter. I feel small, and it’s lovely that way.