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artist is a funny word in that it entails the idea that there are folk who are specialists in creative activity. i think this split between creative work and the rest of your life is debilitating.
from folk who work under this classification, you find often highly developed expressions in very specialized languages. but some of the most technically virtuosic and emotionally moving experiences i have had experiencing the work of others has originated from environments that are not hobbled by this goofy specialization.
in fact, to my shock, i agree with ustwo above (no. 11)
making things seems to me about process, about control over technique and materials and openness relative to technique and to materials. what you make--the objects--are markers, points where different aspects of what engages you get brought into a certain relation. fixed and left behind.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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