My consistent concern has been how to change the fixed notion in society that regards art as something isolated and reserved for the "cultured" few. John Dewey's Art as Experience, a theory of art that sees the origin of art as a life-sustaining impulse, was precisely the answer to my concern. Art lies not within the possession of portraits of musicians like Bach and Beethoven in the school music rooms; rather, art is something that every human being possesses as an impulse to create from the moment they are born into the world. Based on Dewey's theory of occupation, which is rooted in everyday experience, I formulated the idea of "artistic construction activity" as an educational method to continuously develop everyday experience, starting from impulse, into artistic experience. This serves as the link between Dewey's theories of education and art.
