So... so what?

The artful consideration of the universe, the recording and arranging of ones findings in order to confront a formal issue, is enough. But beyond that, there is so much more. Just as science tackles the Big Questions by way of smaller questions, so does art. A simple quest to see what happens when this color and that are placed next to each other, or when this particular formal constriction is placed upon a way of looking at the world, can lead to such profundity. So what? The only real response I can think of is ‘What else is there?’ If not this, then what? What would the world be, were there not minds attempting to make sense of it? What would my world be if I were not trying to make sense of it? So what? So what? Why not? So it isn’t for you, perhaps. But it does not negate the artist’s experience of having created it, nor does it eliminate the things you perhaps gained in perceiving it. Things that may or may not be readily apparent, but things that are nonetheless present.