Painter or Sculpturer?

In the world of relationships, are we guided by our “inner artist”? Do we craft our personal relationships the same way an artists paints an image on canvass or a sculpturer carves a figure in stone? Both forms of art require creativity as does a relationship. The question asked here is whether an individual is guided by one form of creativity or another. Take the sculpturer for example: First of all everything is in three dimension rather than two dimension, but more importantly, the sculpturer looks at a block of stone, for instance, and sees something in that stone the figure he or she wishes to create. From here, the process is a matter of removing the unwanted stone to arrive at the desired, finished product. Are there people who do the same thing in relationships? We all probably have images locked somewhere in out mind of our individual, ideal relationship. When meeting someone new who we hope has “relationship potential” do we begin to chip away at what we determine to be unwanted material much in the same way a sculpturer chisels away unwanted stone or marble? On the other hand, the painter (I can’t call the painter an artist as opposed to as sculpturer since a friend who sculpts informed me that both painters and sculpturers are artists) works in two dimensions starting with a blank canvass (or other material) and builds up from that blank canvass to get the desired results. They are similar in that they both have an idea of the finished product but in one case reduction of unwanted material is the method of arriving at the desired result and in the other case adding desired material to the blank canvass does the trick. Is there a painter relationship where, again, we have an image of what we hope will be the “finished product” and try to add various aspects to build up what started out as a “blank canvass” to our ideal relationship? If men can be from Mars and women from Venus why can’t some of us be sculpturers while others are painters? The next question will explore whether a sculpturer can find happiness with a painter (or the other way around) and whether there is gender preference for either the sculpturer or the painter. Is one more feminine and the other more masculine? Are there political ramifications? Are some of the candidates painters while others sculpturers? Tune in next week (and opinions are welcome)