Everything is connected – everything – and art and life bob and weave in a wild dance together in that great amalgamation of all that is.  So who influences whom in this interplay?  Over 100 years ago, Oscar Wilde wrote “Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life”.  Yet, if you stop to think about it, it’s easy to see how art influences life and then our lives influence our arts – on and on in a continuous circle such that if we try to say “life imitates art” we stop briefly and ask ourselves “is that how that quote goes?”.  Go Google the phrase and some of the top search returns are asking that same very question. Read the rest of this entry »