“Art keeps the universe in balance. Somehow it returns some of the treasures of existence back to the universe itself. I can’t explain all the reasons why or how, but we are given more than we know what to do with on Earth—bodies, trees, cultures, languages, mysteries, histories, ancient catastrophes. When we are born we are given so much we had absolutely nothing to do with. Somehow art returns this generosity and overwhelming superabundance to the world itself. Even with all the art and holiness and love we're wild to make, life on Earth is wildly out of balance. That’s the adventure we get to have. Somehow we are helping the beyond—whatever it is—to understand what it is, as we figure out what we are. It’s a continual reciprocity and I don’t know how far it really goes, because my little pea brain can’t fathom it. But I know it goes far, and even just into little me, it goes very far indeed.”

Ariana Reines