Warren Lee Cohen

Fellow bread enthusiast, oven builder and sculptor Kiko Denzer sent me the following thoughts on art.

“Art is engagement. My intuitive sense of the word was greatly strengthened when I found that the word “art” shares a common root with all these:
Harmony, Arm, Articulate, Article, Arithmetic (the art of counting)
Reason, Ratio, Rational, Ratify
Order, Ordain, Coordinate
Reading, Rite, Ritual, Kindred, Hatred!
How can we know harmony (much less reason, order, ritual, kindred) if we only work with one or two of our many innate faculties and senses?”

A sense for the artistic, for the beautiful and an ability to enter fully into an artistic process lie at the core of our ability to connect with the creative principles of nature. Art is a gateway to the creative spirit that lives within and builds us all.