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hal---no, it really doesn't demonstrate that, at least not from the side of the art-consumer.
it does demonstrate that the category is arbitrary in that someone who makes things can enframe what they are doing as "art" as they like.
but everyone who makes stuff makes more than they show.
and it is the idea that it really doesn't matter---to my mind the basis for art production of any kind is an engagement with craft, and that simply takes work and time and patience. so that means that making stuff is entirely different from showing it, and that the process of making stuff has nothing to do with the processes of its reception.
if you give away your ability to continue working on craft to the approval of others, you'll never get any better at what you're doing.
you have to believe that it's legit in itself or you'll just stop.
anyone would.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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