Suburban Primitive Manifesto #4

Design work, in it's strictest sense exist to please the eye. Art exist to challenge the brain. I call this challenge "The brain stretch". The desire to organize and control ones environment has been with us far longer than written history. Perhaps it is an attempt to show some type of mastery over a hostile world. This control over our environment is where design is king. Why differentiate between art and design at all? It is because arranging and controlling ones environment is, although important, not the end all of art. Art has the ability to express human thought and emotions. We are all on the same journey, scared and alone wondering where it all leads to, what it all means. The expressive magical nature of art helps sort out these feelings and at times gives us hope that it is all worthwhile.