Who am I?

"Art is experience. A culmination of lived time feeling emotions, sensations, and thoughts that connect us all through our shared capabilities of consciousness or lack thereof. But time is still distinctive and ever-evolving to each and every person. The art of science is two people seeing a circle and being able to identify it as a circle. The science of art is two people seeing a circle, being asked what the circle means to them, and each coming up with different answers that exist exclusively to their unique perceptions of it. Artists search for people who will find their art in an understanding similar to themselves. A hope that someone else will discover a sense of reliability from within our creations. That is the value of art. We will always find ways to place a price on it. But art's purpose exists not in the product itself, but in the outsider's emotional resonance to it. And in the vast spectrum of emotions we all experience and the extensive circumstances we might feel them, there is an endlessness to art that always strives for innovation that can never truly be repeated. The finest, most special art are those pieces we cannot help but devote time long after it's already been seen. Perhaps it left a positive impact. Perhaps it left a negative impact. But just as art can be a mirror through which we can see ourselves, it can also be a window through which we see others. And true art has the thoughtfulness to make us consider beliefs and understandings we never could while asking why we feel the emotions to it that we do. It can be consoling to find someone who thinks in a way similar to the way you do. Or instead, perhaps it can be challenging to accept another person who might oppose your own way of thought. But with provocation must come the ability to listen. I am passionate about stories that can entertain and engage people, but may also strike conversation about the issues at large being exploited in our world. Therefore, in my ambition to create, if someone sees my work and doesn't agree with it, I will listen you. Artists need not be so conceited to disapprove that someone else might be just as capable of being fair as they are. All I humbly ask is that you give my work a chance before composing preconceptions about me and what I do.  I will always wake up with the ambition to tell the stories I think are worth telling and that maybe, one day, it may evolve to become part of someone else's own unique perception of life. After all, art is experience. And I hope to make mine worth knowing."

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                                 Mason Arsenault