A piece of artwork has been painted, yet it’s only a blank canvas; the painter explains that it’s there because the work in his or her mind it’s already painted; all the painter has to do is connect our mind to the canvas, and we will see that it’s there. Sometimes the connection isn’t immediate. First, the spectator might dislike the work, their feelings are neutral, or it requires an instant love of the work. Indeed no art is inferior or superior to each painting, sculpture, film, music, photo, poem, ceramic, novel, or other work of art. Every artist is different, so each piece reveals the artist’s individuality, although he or she may express themselves in traditional ways of expression. Art is a subjective thing, like food. Everyone has their taste in what they think is good, bad, or neutral. I wouldn’t know what great art is; in my view, it’s when the most profound feelings the artist imparts the same or similar feelings to the audience, perhaps the same feelings the artist felt.

Here I’m writing through my imagination about what art could be in a mythical world I’ve created.

Lamp forms exist in the mythical world; they emit light of various colors; some are tall, reaching into the clouds, and there are small ones, like a flat plate on the ground. Constructing, designing, and planning where lamps are to be located is planned in places where the lights are needed along pathways to lit up at night as guides as symbols for essential areas such as palaces, government buildings, police, neighborhoods, and many other necessary communities. Because in the culture of the desert, ocean, mountain, forest, and sky, the lamps represent places or paths to culture, learning, and progress; lamps light the way they are symbols. In reality, the lamps guide people to wisdom through times of social darkness and uncertainty.

In the distant nowhere where people, villages, towns, and cities didn’t exist, there were fountains in many forms; most were bowl-shaped to catch the water, and others were channels that went far into the distance. Because the almost translucent material lit up in the night, displaying thousands of colors of decorations on the surface of the lamps is rare.

For the people of the fantasy world, creating art was anything; a craftsperson or artist just had to impart beauty.

Robert J. Matsunaga