Two of my paintings for sale on my Etsy Shop.   

The photos are an attempt at creating a scene, or still life setting, for the paintings.  It is hard for me to think of a painting without a setting, whether on a wall or desk.  Paintings become a part of dwellings, environment, or bacground - depending on one's mindset.  Never are paintings a stand alone object.   I don't think anything physically exists that is not a part of something.  If some one purchaces a work by me because the colors match their interior design scheme, I am honored.

Mentally, of course, such independence is conceivable.  

However, the concept does not reflect the physical world.  So, from my point of view, art is a part of something whether we want it to be or not.   

A reflection of the human condition.  

Two visions.

Humans are individuals.  Human is collective.  

But, everyone is blindly looking at the same thing.

So, what are we?  A massive herd trampling everything in its path?  A solitary animal?  A single spirit or a mass of spirits?  Do we have a natural communal mind?  Do we build our communal minds?

Sometimes, I think that was the Great Question of the Twentieth Century; although, to be honest, the question probably first came up in before then.   Calenders are convienient markers of time; but, not as accurate as we believe.   

I have no idea about the Twenty First Century, it is hard to see the forest from the inside.