From:
"Ian Marr" <ianmarr@zzzzzzzzzzz>
Date:
Wed, 25 Feb 2004 08:25:33 +1100
Subject:
carving ethics
While there is truth in what Bill says about contemporary art's view of
'making', and that commercial industrial companies, or craftsmen, can be
subcontracted -- we _can make_ judgements about the human and aesthetic
qualities of such work. Compare the oeuvres of Ian Hamilton Finlay and Jeff
Koons. Artists like Finlay, genuinely bound to and respectful of their craft
collaborators, advance the genre and media of stone, wood, printing,
casting.
Also, posterity. It doesn't matter, but I would like to think that future
people might be interested in how I conceived a work, drew an R, knew about
Epicurus, made a mistake, fixed it, and _made marks_ one hot afternoon in
2004.
I know I'm interested in my counterpatrs of 5th century BC!
Of course, as we become famous, we need to spend more time away from the
studio, schmoozing with clients and carousing, and leave more of the actual
carving to others.
Ian Marr
http://www.ianmarr.com
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