Art and architecture is always relevant

            It is important to spend time and money in discovering, preserving and displaying art from long gone civilizations. It can be a civilization from a culture not one’s own or even the distant past of your own civilization. Art and architecture was created to fill needs such as beauty, the worship of nature (or religion), and the display of cultural and economic splendor or simply because it fulfilled a personal (or societal) desire (or necessity). The appreciation or compassion that comes from creating art from today or yesterday is to be cherished.

            Art and architecture is always relevant regardless if it’s from the past, present, or future. Art as art serves a purpose just by being imagined, conceptualized and created. Something that springs from the internal self to the external world is a gift from God (or the gods). Art and technology are often like quarrelsome twins. One begets the other yet there is conflict when visions collide. We often talk of religion and science being in conflict yet there is this same tension between art and technology. The technology used in metal work, painting, pottery and all such aids in the creative Muse. Technology is in conflict with art when for example; at a construction site a back hoe is used to dig up a Native American burial ground with no intention of preserving the artifacts and the culture that created it.

            Art and architecture is always relevant from a historical, contemporary or future perspective. We needed our past when it was the present, we need our today, and we will always need our future when it becomes our present day. Art and architecture is often born of necessity and fills our desire for beauty. The physical and spiritual is manifested in our artifacts and how these artifacts are constructed and used reflects the quality of our civilization. Although art and technology are like quarrelsome twins we need both our children for our inner goddess Muse demands it of us. Our inner Muse is the goddess that helped spawn our various human civilizations.