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Aneirin -> RE: Racial Dilemma ? (10/29/2009 4:14:24 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Lucienne
He's not an artist. He's a jeweler.
No, I am a metal smith, that way I do not limit myself or my expertise.
I do machine repair, forging, welding, tool making, panel beating, copper smithing, silversmithing, jewellery making, in fact, if it's metal, and there is a skill required in it's movement, I learn it. Jack of all metal trades perhaps, but I am reasonably proficient in most, better skill and knowledge comes with practice. Also with metals, basic physics governs all, it is then just a material.
Now as for artist, and that matter craftsman, that debate has been raging since at least the arts and crafts movement, somewhere around 1880 when John Ruskin wrote about the art a craftsman produces, given the time scale from then to now and all the meaningless debate that has been produced, it would seem there is no clear definition of what is art. So, I take it as art is in the eye of the beholder, and in that case the creator. Of course that would mean something that is described as art to one, may not be art to another, but at the end of the day, who cares, it really does not matter, as the thing that is most important, is the person who possess the 'art', if they like it, bollocks to those who don't. There is a lot to be said, about beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
I don't know whether this is the mind of an artist, but others know what I am like when I have the mind to create, the creative process is more important than the finished article, that would be the research, the planning, all the thought and feeling that goes in before any tool is even picked up. The making, well to me it is like playing a recording, or opening a tap ( faucet), and letting what is held back, flow, the energy creating the design in the mind. When the piece is done, it's done, the energy has been expelled and turned into another form,the feeling passes on, the piece has to go, as it now serves no purpose in fact getting rid of it, is a bit of a priority with me, as with 'it' hanging around, I find it blocks the mind,so off it goes to where ever.
So, now my colleague has brought, ( rightly or wrongly ) the black issue into what I am doing, ( again, rightly or wrongly ), this has now become part of my research, something I have to think about and explore, the black slavery issue is now part of the process, but I feel I am treading on contentious ground with this, and the need to be politic rings in my mind, but politic inhibits thought, so you see, personally, I have a battle with this research, a battle with myself. It is either allow the politics of the past influence my ideas, or ignore them and any dissenters and allow the energy to flow unhindered. Creating things is much like writing, don't we all feel bettter when we have wrote down our thoughts, viewed them as form and done whatever feels fit with them, me, it's usually destroy my writings, so I can move on. I feel I need to let this idea flow, as if I don't, and the resultant is a shadow of what it could have been, I will be plagued with it again, and again, until the 'product' matches the inspiration.
But the art process, my feeling is, and this goes with so many other artists, the feeling that creates a tangible final object, comes from the dark side of us. With me, it is obvious really, friends that know me, and know about my kink, can see it in my art work. So fine, if my kink and sexuality is fuelling my art, then good, it comes from a powerful and creative place, which has been around in animal kind since the start. So, maybe my seemingly life long interest in chains does come from that past dark place, and I just thought now, snakes also feature in much of my art work, hmmm, sex.
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