One of the users of Instagram posted a comment about the fact that, as he wrote, art schools haven’t “trained” students for over 40 years. He does qualify this a little by saying that to do so they’d have to had a notion what that training might be. I know what he means. We don’t have the technical skill of our artistic forbears, but we have other forms of expression that are surely just as valid. I wish I’d been trained, though I suspect that if I had I would be made rigid by it. I don’t have natural skill. I make do. Make shift with both drawing and writing. That’s all. It hurts sometimes, because I know it should be better, all of it. But I strive and that is the result. Art is bigger now, more democratic. I think I like it that way.
