Art isn’t sacred. It’s chicken scratch from People who are looking for what is sacred. Some chicken scratch is legible, some isn’t. But we all know it says something that was important enough to write down.
Mickey Roberts is a New York based artist. He specializes in playful, abstract illustration and painting. His current work serves as an externalization of the voices in our heads. Mickey gives faces to the thoughts we endure so that we can see the more easily fight that "enemy" within us. Once the thought is exorcised, we are free to see it for what it is… nothing more than a thought.
“To me, art is not some grand contribution to the world. Nor is it meant to be ogled and praised– Simply read like a notebook. Art is a language. When I don’t know what to say, I draw. Most of the time what I’m trying to say isn’t even all that significant. Sometimes it’s the taste of a peach that I don’t have a word for, or the face of a feeling I can’t seem to get out of my head. So I draw it out, or paint it out, or write it out. First, art is a tool for understanding my experience. Then it’s a language for communicating that experience to those who may also be struggling to find the words."
