Michael Wilson, a photographer I know, wrote the following in a book of his work. I think he articulated something subtle yet vital about art: "These pictures are sort of a reminder, a sort of evidence. They are not necessarily about what they are of. These pictures are not the result of any concerted effort or ambitious endeavor on the part of the photographer. They've come about in very small ways over a long period of time... pictures taken while walking the dog or the odd moment while I was supposed to be taking pictures of someone for money. They are not a mining effort, they are a scratching of the surface... and they are to me evidence of a richness and a grace in this world that does not despise, but rewards even the numb and nonchalant with word of the miraculous... evidence of a real that is as invisible as it is visible."