Digital BW, The Print

Ah, but do you(we) not see our own work? Do you(we) not respond, react and
keep making art?

> From: Todd Flashner <tflash@...>
> Reply-To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 16:07:48 -0400
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: ART and LIFE
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>> Art is worth
>> nothing, if it doesn't provoke communication between the viewer and the work
>> - at a minimum. If the art stimulates discussion and interaction among
>> viewers and between artists and viewers, so much the better.
>> Art is not always beautiful, but it is nothing if not seen.
> 
> So a person who "creates" work purely for their own enjoyment, for the love
> of the act rather than the result, is not an artist, and their creations are
> not art until they are seen?
> 
> I realize this is analogous to whether a tree makes as sound when it
> falls....and the sound of one hand clapping....But art is a Zen thing. It is
> a function of the mindset of the artist in the moment(s) of creation.
> 
> Art isn't in the object that we see, it's in the process that creates it.
> The power it may or may not have over us is in our interpretation of it, but
> art lives in creation. No viewer is required.
> 
> Todd
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