I want to give a big shout-out to the new friends who have joined our Facebook crowd!

In case you haven't joined, here is a link to the Matt Lamb Facebook Fan Page!

Thank you all for joining the parade, and thank you especially to my loyal Blog readers who have added so much to our conversation over the years!

I believe that we all are artists, even though in many cases, the culture has drummed it into our minds that we have to be a certain way and have certain ideas.  I don’t belong to that camp.  I believe each of us is utterly different because of our gene structures and creativity.  An artist is not a clone or a Xerox machine, but a historian who takes what we do as a culture, filters it through our unique selves, and presents it in such a manner that other people can either proclaim that we’re great sages or we’re full of crap, but whatever the case, we are true to ourselves.

As I say when I speak to children or adult artists, “My name is Matt Lamb, and I’m not trying to be Picasso.  I just want to be the best Matt Lamb I can be.”

I’m a wanderer.  I don’t take the straight path.  I go to the future; I go to the past, I go to the present, I go to the left and the right, I don’t know the rules and don’t care about them.  The rules are for the collective mind.  We are all individual minds.

What interests me more than anything is that there is so much unexplored, unfulfilled space out there that has to be explored by all of us as artists and members of the human species.

At 78 years old, I’m running out of time, but I can’t panic; I just have to keep digging.

My art is my art.  Your art is your art.  Don’t let anyone take it away from you, and if they try to, believe me, they are not your friends.

Your art is yours and yours alone.  Love it, savor it, embrace it, proclaim it, sign it, and send it on its way.  Whether it’s burned, enshrined, shoved up somebody’s ass, or put in the most prestigious museum of the world, is immaterial.  What is material is that it’s there, it exists, it’s yours, and it’s making a statement about our perception of our time on this swirly blue marble of a planet that we call Earth.

Whether you are a new member of the Facebook Fan Page, a follower on Twitter, a loyal Blog reader, or a web-surfer who enjoys my website, www.mattlamb.org, I am grateful for your online friendship and am honored to welcome you to the wide, wild world of Lamb.

It’s your world, too.  Let’s throw it all on the wall and see what sticks!

Matt