I do not create for the sake of money — and yet I do not resent it. Whether a piece sells for a little, some, or a lot… that is not why I make it. Money is a byproduct, not the purpose.
I make art to share ideas, to reflect emotion, to explore thought and process. At its deepest root, art has always been about communication — about connection.
Long, long before galleries, before markets, before currency, humans made marks on walls. In the Chauvet-Pont d’Arc cave in France, we find some of the earliest known figurative drawings in the world, but they are not primitive. They are sophisticated, expressive, dynamic — the first known expressions of human creative genius carved in stone over 30,000 years ago — a testimony not to commerce, but to thought, presence, and spirit.
More than a thousand images remain, preserved through time — animals, movement, meaning — evidence that art was never about price, but purpose.
Too often today, the worth of art is measured in dollar signs and prestige. But many of the artists we revere most in history lived and died without recognition, without praise, without financial reward — only finding value long after they were gone.
Mediums change, tools evolve, but the act of creating — to communicate, to question, to witness — stays the same. From Paleolithic walls to pixels on a screen, creation continues: not for a $, but for the shared language of what it means to be human.
Discovered on Sunday 18 December 1994 by Jean-Marie Chauvet, Éliette Brunel and Christian Hillaire during a private speleological exploratio
