Elevate Your Life
October 15, 2025
Art has a way of reaching into the spaces that language can’t touch. It doesn’t ask for permission, it simply arrives, quietly or boldly, and begins to change the way you see. To live with art, to engage with it, whether you’re the one making it or the one standing before it, is to invite a deeper, more textured experience of the world. It elevates the everyday, adds weight to fleeting moments, and fills empty spaces not just with beauty, but with presence.
When you create, you're not just producing something visual, you’re translating emotion, memory, curiosity into form. You're giving shape to what might otherwise go unspoken. And even if you’re not the one holding the brush, simply being around art, choosing it, living with it, sitting in its company, reminds you that life isn’t just about function or survival. It’s about flourishing. Art lifts you out of the ordinary. It slows you down. It sharpens your senses. It lets you see yourself, and the world, in new and necessary ways.
To surround yourself with art is to surround yourself with possibility. It’s a quiet but powerful rebellion against numbness and routine. It says there is more here, more feeling, more beauty, more meaning, if only we pay attention. And the more you make space for it, the more it gives back. A single work can anchor a room, shift a mood, start a conversation, or stop time. It can remind you who you are, or who you once were. It can challenge you, comfort you, or simply stand as proof that something deeply human passed through.
Art is not a luxury. It’s a kind of nourishment. A way of seeing and being that enriches life beyond measure. So whether you’re creating it, collecting it, or just quietly letting it move you, know that you’re participating in something vital. Something that doesn’t just fill space, but lifts it. Something that doesn’t just decorate life, but deepens it.
To choose art is to choose to elevate your life.
The Christopher Mudgett archive collection is the only one in the world to present the artist’s up-to-date painted, sculpted, engraved and illustrated œuvre and a precise record—through sketches, studies, drafts, notebooks, photos, books, films and documents—of the creative process.

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