So...I was looking out the window at the brightly colored leafs on the trees as I rode in the car today. I started thinking. What is it that I want my artwork to be one day? At it's best. I started thinking about what I have to do with a piece of artwork (whether it be my poetry or my drawings, paintings or photography) to be happy with it. Then I started thinking about how artists are forced to make artwork with the sole purpose of creating something that others can relate to. Then I said something like this to my parents: "If you make a piece of artwork that connects to your life, your feelings, and your emotions, then almost everyone is sure to understand it. Most of us go through, or come in to some sort of contact with anything that can be made in to art during our lives." I was not that articulate about it, but that is what I was trying to say. So, I pulled out my sketchpad and wrote this down first:

"My artwork, at it's best, is the preservation of precious moments and beauty."
I am taking the moments and images in this world that are special to me and preserving them for forever in artwork...

Then I thought- "that is just my poetry"- ...so I wrote an other:

"My artwork is an attempt to preserve precious moments of beauty and emotion for forever and a want for others to understand them."

If this could be written in a more grammatically correct way, please let me know.