Well Tunde, since many artists choose a particular form of art as a means of self-expression, I don't see why they should choose to hide their inner most thoughts and feelings... Some really need their art to express themselves to the world, to make themselves known, often because they have a hard time to be expressive in any other way. Something like: "You ask me who I am..? Well, just look at my images, they're shouting at you, and you do not see..?"

Sometimes that need for self-expression can take on obsessive and desperate forms. I once knew a girl who had nothing but ice cream cones in her images. She drew images with dozens of different cones in different colors and shapes, all nicely divided in horizontal and vertical rows. She made screen prints, stone prints, linoleum prints and etchings with nothing but countless ice cream cones... and not just for a short period; in the five years that I've known her, I never saw anything else but ice cream cones in her images, and she was very productive and determined about it. Don't ask me what that meant in psychological terms... but after a while you could read in her images if she was happy or sad, open or closed, expressive or distant, certain or insecure... Although it seemed totally incomprehensible at the beginning, and she never gave any explanation about it except for "I like ice cream cones", those images were her means of self expression to the world...

We do not see things as they are. ǝɹɐ ǝʍ sɐ sƃuıɥʇ ǝǝs ǝʍ