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Thanks for this "other side". I'm a technician (I build bots!) but I like to think there is a sense of art to what I do.

• jfoutz 4y ago
  So, historically, and I'd say even today, a lot of art is pretty technical. imagine you're sitting around in 1550 and decide to paint a painting, you've got to gather up some boar bristles to make your brushes. You've got to source some lapis lazuli for a nice rich blue. Maybe some cadmium for red, and suspend all that into some sort of oil. Furthermore, a lot of historical art, like ceramics was really practical. At the root of it, folks wanted a way to carry around liquids. There's a lot of tricks around clay and glazing to make something. to our modern ears, a silversmith makes jewelry, but really they'd spend a lot of time making forks and spoons and such. I can't really answer the question "what is art?". but I feel really comfortably saying an artist is someone who tries to pull off a task, the cool way. I know that's vague. But anybody who's good at anything will know there's a way that'll work for sure, and there's another way that's, just, cooler. A flourish of skill that probably no one will ever notice, but is really really neat. I don't know you, and I don't know your work. But if you ever want to call your self an artist, there's at least one other person out there that would agree with you.
  • hypertexthero 4y ago
    Make that two people! It took me a long time to learn that the process is what making art is about.