Thinking about serendipity

How did you come to make art?

I ask this question of a lot of artists. The standard answer from many, if not most, is “I was always drawing as a kid.” That’s not satisfying, because I can’t think of any kid who wasn’t always drawing at one point.

Maybe, then, the “correct” question would be something like, “Why did you continue making art?” For me, I did not continue making art. As …