ELECTRIC ART
Lily Hatchett
Artists are jumping boundaries in a mind boggling feeding
frenzy. Everywhere I look, painters and sculptors are making movies, shooting
video clips, and photographing digitally. In this millennium, multi-tasking is
a creative need, as well as the stuff of survival. Communication and
comprehension are mandatory: try surviving without them, whether you are a
Neanderthal, a tiger, or a human. Anthropology links this phenomenon, this
prevalent need to create, to our primal survival skills. Now that the forest is
no longer trying to trick us into walking into the predators’ jaws, our amazing
skills of perception and communication are put to the task of art making. Art,
the impulse to expand brainpower and dexterity, engages oneself and entertains
others.
