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What is art for? Here are some of the possibilities (many of which are very ancient) that I think about: --- to comfort the dead --- to awaken the living --- to delve into the past and run with it into the future --- to experience others --- to know the migrations of animals, fish and birds, and of peoples --- to make community with ideas against injustice --- to allow the eye to become a hand, a wing, a heart, that can respond to gestures, to colours, and to forms --- for the joy of making and enhancing life Mary Frank, from the catalogue published for her traveling show, "Mary Frank: Experiences" Reprinted with permission from Mary Frank. Copyright 2003 by Mary Frank. All rights reserved.   contact us. Back to Top

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