It's Day 4 of Meet The Maker Week and today’s theme is 'Why'.

I could waffle on but never put it as well as the talented Onye Ndika once did in an email to me that has stayed in my heart and mind ever since.

Her full message was:

"I believe that what makes us artists is that we are passionate about birthing beauty from the works of our hands.
Whether it's beaded/ metal/ plastic/ recycled/etc. jewelry, paintings, wood-carvings, sculpted styrofoam... I just don't think it matters.
What drives us to create these things is a fire that burns in the heat of summer all the way through the cold of winter, threatens to consume us if we don't USE it, and if the fire goes out (because the issues of 'life - coming at us, fast' or what have you), we are cold, miserable and jaded".

Such a wise woman!