Art

“falling in reverse” by eden is a collage of a song tied together with a humming piano and keening violins, and the last line goes: “I hope you know you don’t go alone.” This sentiment, I believe, is why we create art. Why we bother to spend hours, days, or years on something most people will only behold for a moment or two. Because if we’re able to reach out to just one other person, then it’s enough. We are, afterall, social creatures who whither without communication, without understanding. And we crave it so much we plaster our lives with symbols of ourselves: on our walls, our bodies, our plates, our streets, in our homes, in our food. All the little shards we carry like a beacon from a lighthouse hoping to catch a single lost vessel. A way of saying, “hey, me too.”

So behold, even if it’s just for a moment or two, and know you don’t ever go alone.

— Lindsey Walter
Visual Arts Intern