Art is seen as a fundamentally human experience. I would argue this because the capacities for symbolic reasoning, artistic expression, meaningful projections of self onto the surfaces of the world, are often cited as evidence for how human beings are fundamentally different from other animals, and yet as animal studies show, there is essentially nothing that is not, in some manner also practiced by some non-human animal species. Even those authors who most want to maintain some specialty for humans alone have a difficult time finding ground from which to say only we come here.