“Are we all not searching for our stories, our myths, our images, that like an open hand, like an invitation to voyage, ask us to be engaged with them?  And  isn’t that not perhaps the most important thing we learn from these things? How to be engaged with the world.  How to look and listen with one’s own eyes, how to think and feel your way through an image, how to think and feel your way through a text, how there can be something in the sound of a sentence that speaks into you and through you, yes, through you, through the whole of you, moving and moving and moving and always moving, for its rhythms are the rhythms of your heart and its voice is like the song of your most secret blood. There are sentences like that, and images and poems and ideas, that welcome us into ourselves, that draw us ever more into the deep and active mystery of the world.

As artists aren’t we all trying to elicit that sort of engagement elicit that sort of engagement, and perhaps even to offer some indication about where we can grow. Though if it’s not in this work, look no further than the world outside your window, than the wind and the trees and the flowers, if but we could learn to trust the law by which they bloom and how it corresponds to the law of our own growth.” - Ben Rubin

His art- http://ghostofthemoon.com

His first book- http://buttondownbird.com