All art competes

All art competes. It competes for fruition, jostling in an artist’s unconscious with a million other impulses until something necessary, something timely, pushes to the front and demands this work be made. It enters a world that’s full of things that require our notice: news on the latest catastrophe, family commitments, bills, appointments, taxes, nourishment… And then it stands among all the other art-things, asking that people pay attention.