An article written by Professor Keith Lewis, Professor of Art, Central Washington University
"We have a responsibility to try to make a difference, if only by a gesture. Gestures turn insignificance into power. They change the worthless to the precious. This is important because we make precious things. As artists, we have a feebler excuse than most for avoiding important gestures because what we do depends on understanding, deep down, the meanings, implications and truths of what we make. We must understand not only what we intend our work to mean, but what baggage and burdens our work takes on because of the context of our world."