visual immortality: to be an artist

To be able to translate to others what life appears to be is a talent that many of us have. To be able to transfer that reality to a surface gives us a kind of immortality. There has been countless painters since humanoids left paintings on cave walls in southern France a long time ago. In relation to vast numbers that have attempted, relatively few painters have made that jump to immortality. They are the ones who have captured their time and space like no others before them and spawned legions of clones in their wake.