This piece reminds me of a scene in Annie Dillard's essay, "The Present," in which she is seated outside a gas station, sipping free coffee in a paper cup which costs $0.50. She notices the tremulous landscape, and the swaying of trees as the wind brushes against them. In that moment, she challenges the reader to capture the present. "Catch it if you can" she says. I guess I haven't really thought about this, but I think I hang on to art to crucify the present. There isn't much I can say on why I do this. Not much until now, I guess.
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