Thanks for your words. Excellent statements and poem. The AI situation is causing hairs to be split thinner and thinner. Boat building is a great example and with this example comes the question is carpentry an art? Does the carpenter know it's creating art? Does the artist know it's doing carpentry? I'm not trying to answer those questions. Is boat building an art? I know if the boat doesn't float it doesn't matter if it's art.
Working as a carpenter daily and trying to find time to work on whatever I call "art" is constantly challenging. Not just finding time, but the mindfuck of which is which? I've made built in units that would pass as art possibly. Again, if the shelves aren't secured proper, everything is crashing down. So the only way to tell the difference for me is, when I start a carpentry project I typically expect some monetary consequence. When I start a creative project (I think I feel more like a creative than an artist) the monetary consequence is of no consequence. I assume any money spent on said project might as well be lit on fire, which is freeing for me. The free feeling is probably what makes it art. But what do I know, I'm just a carpenter.
Art is what we do as humans. I think that means we create. We may do that through work that is artful in the sense that it is done skillfully; or we may do less-functionally driven art that that is work in the sense ot takes effort and also functions. The line can be thin for sure!
Excellent! What an effective well written poem about the technology that attempts to usurp the authenticity of art fashioned out of an artist’s confrontation with the world. Attempts that substitute an amalgamation of soulless mechanistic decisions that can MERELY provide a superficial imitation of true Art…Authentic art is art that strives to give meaning to our chaotic universe through the fundamental human endeavor: to impose and create meaning in the formless swirling impressions we confront as we seek to navigate a way forward to a meaningful life.
Thanks for your words. Excellent statements and poem. The AI situation is causing hairs to be split thinner and thinner. Boat building is a great example and with this example comes the question is carpentry an art? Does the carpenter know it's creating art? Does the artist know it's doing carpentry? I'm not trying to answer those questions. Is boat building an art? I know if the boat doesn't float it doesn't matter if it's art.
Working as a carpenter daily and trying to find time to work on whatever I call "art" is constantly challenging. Not just finding time, but the mindfuck of which is which? I've made built in units that would pass as art possibly. Again, if the shelves aren't secured proper, everything is crashing down. So the only way to tell the difference for me is, when I start a carpentry project I typically expect some monetary consequence. When I start a creative project (I think I feel more like a creative than an artist) the monetary consequence is of no consequence. I assume any money spent on said project might as well be lit on fire, which is freeing for me. The free feeling is probably what makes it art. But what do I know, I'm just a carpenter.
Thank you so much for commenting and restacking my poem. It is greatly appreciated.
Art is what we do as humans. I think that means we create. We may do that through work that is artful in the sense that it is done skillfully; or we may do less-functionally driven art that that is work in the sense ot takes effort and also functions. The line can be thin for sure!
Excellent! What an effective well written poem about the technology that attempts to usurp the authenticity of art fashioned out of an artist’s confrontation with the world. Attempts that substitute an amalgamation of soulless mechanistic decisions that can MERELY provide a superficial imitation of true Art…Authentic art is art that strives to give meaning to our chaotic universe through the fundamental human endeavor: to impose and create meaning in the formless swirling impressions we confront as we seek to navigate a way forward to a meaningful life.
Impressive!
Thanks Patrick for adding your voice to this discussion. Let’s keep art human!