I am art—the metaphysician

Keita Whitten * 2026 * Bowdoin, ME

Art is a practice of attention—

I make myself available

to material, memory, body, beauty,

ancestry, joy, place, grief, Spirit,

and the unexpected.

Because the soul, like water, is not fixed.

It moves.

It pools.

It stagnates.

It breaks through.

It changes course.

It remembers.

It returns.

And so—

I make.

I listen.

I follow.

I wait.

Sometimes I understand.

Sometimes I don’t.

And sometimes,

years later,

I encounter

something in the world

and realize—

The Soul already knew.

It’s the mystery

I have learned to trust—

the territory

I continue to explore.

I am Art in motion—

the metaphysician.