Meeting I to I

As our deepest hopes and aspirations are fraught with challenges, we can find meaning and direction in the view that our ideals are not illusions but realities to be realized through developing our full human potential.

This view informs my striving as an artist. My artistic activity continues to evolve as a path of contemplative inquiry into being and becoming human. In addition, I see myself as a cultural worker striving to serve the advancement of human culture and society.

I welcome the opportunity to share some of my questions and experiences as an artist with the intention that it will lead us into conversation about our evolving humanity. In particular, I hope to explore how the arts offer a way for all human beings to develop their spirit individuality, as well as the capacity to build community founded on ethical individuality.

Our conversation together is itself an opportunity to build a new form of community based on the art of meeting I to I.

The great transition to this newer age consists in human being meeting human being free of their sheaths... But the capacities for this untrammeled encounter have not yet been acquired; above all we have not yet acquired the possibility for a relation between ego and ego. But this must be prepared for by education (culture and art). That is why the question of education (culture and art) is of such burning importance.

— Rudolf Steiner, The Younger Generation, Lecture 12, p.157-62