VVP Statement
We’re all growing here. We’re young. There’s so much we don’t know.
Whether we share it or not, the work serves its purpose. It’s gift. That makes it beautiful.
We make the work to tell the truth. Lower t-truth is perhaps the common story, sometimes it is what’s in peoples’ heads but they don’t, or can’t yet, say.
We have trouble synthesizing the different theories we carry. That is interesting.
The work should address people to people instead of putting artists, or art, on pedestals. We can empathize with people we’ve never met in experiences we’ve never had.
Art is not made to be graded. Whether justice is done or not, it is the same for art. What is the relationship between attention to craft, the needs of all people / our neighbors, and one’s devotion to or understanding of God? We are working this out. (See first principle, above.) We can make it complicated but it’s not complicated.
We love the moon professionally.
Acts of love are (un)necessary acts. While not immediately necessary (like water sleep shelter food), art is gratuitously necessary and thus necessarily gratuitous.
Art is a language. You can communicate something through art. You can choose not to, too. The things that you say after you say them become valuable. (Cf. Emily Dickinson, 1212.)
The right direction might be the wrong path.
The desire to not be alone: to make things means sharing life with others. Creating helps us not be, or not feel, alone.
We are always uncertain if it is before or after Labor Day.
[We don’t all of us agree with everything in this list.]
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