ABSTRACT
We make art elliptically. It comes to you by surprise, out of the corner of your eye, around a corner unexpectedly, sitting across a café smiling at you while you drink coffee. So, art is about the unexpected and the ambiguous. Albert Einstein imagined standing on a railway station and seeing a stream of light and a train passing him at comparable speeds. But what of the lady on the train, he thought? At what speed did the light pass her? It cannot be the same as the stream of light that passed him, or could it be? And relativity was born. This was a creative act not dissimilar to Claude Monet’s imperative to paint. Both saw life in a new light.
