One of the great strengths of art is that it can transcend politics and cultural divides.
It expresses how various people see the world, their lives, their people.
Artists are observers of the divine comedy we call life.
What the artist sees and how he or she expresses it can be a gift.
-robert redford

Artist: Ryan Henry Ward
Ballard Neighborhood, Seattle

Imaginative work. . . is like a spider’s web, attached ever so lightly perhaps,
but still attached to life at all four corners. . .
But when the web is pulled askew, hooked up at the edge, torn in the middle,
one remembers that these webs are not spun in mid-air by incorporeal creatures,
but are the work of suffering human beings,
and are attached to the grossly material things,
like wealth and money and the houses we live in.
-virginia woolf
A Room of One’s Own

A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
-chinese proverb

Bherd Studios
Artist: John Osgood
Greenwood Neighborhood, Seattle