The artist is an alchemist who transmutes the actual into the emotional, and in the process "changes or alters the form, the appearance or the nature to a higher form". The Artist may communicate through any of the senses- sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste, or movement; mine is a visual transformation. The fascination and life force in the process is commencing with an unpredetermined goal and being emotionally reactive to the visual environment. The resultant surprise, the sheer joy of creation, is then realized by the alchemy of the aesthetic process; mine can be no greater reality nor satisfaction.
-Ann Solomon