what the hell is art? i've been trying to figure that out for the looongest time. i read in a book once that "it's just when you have to see something liike it is in your head." you're just itching to see it in front of you, and it's a manifestation of your vision. and for a while that was my favorite definition. but what about art as a skill? are we all artists then? i used to give the word "artist" a sort of respect. it was a person with vision, originality, somebody with a purpose or that possessed a certain type of eye/mind for aestheticness. there's also a problem there, because what about the people that possess the skill but no what we like to call "vision"? what about industrialized "art"? is it even art? the dictionary says that art is "a trade or skill". what happened to creativity? maybe my dictionary's just weird.

but yesterday somebody asked me why i took some of the really weird pictures i took. i told him - because i can. and it hit me later that that's the answer i've been looking for, those three words embody all that is art -

because i can!!!