When you visit for a second time a place you remember being a certain way, have you ever found it barely matches your memories from the previous visit? That is because your brain has been creative while you were away. Indeed, the human brain does not reconstruct reality as it is, but rather as we have experienced it. Our experience blends with our cultural background and so it is that as artists we combine what we see, feel, smell and hear with our form of pictorial expression. So it is that art does not represent reality but constructs it.
