[TheForge] Re: 1045 uses

Wed Feb 26 13:12:00 2003

Mike,

You missed my point.  This was not criticism but high compliment!  

Artso-babble is how artists inspire interest, respect, and desire to
spend money in the marks - er - I mean in the art-loving public!  You
can sell shit on a stick for a fortune with the appropriate
artso-babble.  Why, I seriously proposed some months ago that those
among us who can actually make something worthwhile at the forge could
collaborate with those among us practiced in wordsmithing, and together
we could multiply the value of all objects created!

Gotta put a positive spin on things!!!

Bruce
NJ

>>> [email protected] 02/26/03 12:47PM >>>

Charles wrote:

Ch> This sort of recycling is a graphic and gratifying testament to
Ch> the inheritly plastic and transmutable nature of metal, at odds
Ch> with what the eyes and hands are telling you.  o many, a spike
Ch> knife is no longer an inanimate object, but a living one, moving
Ch> from one state to another.  Frozen in time....
Ch> [snip]

And Bruce replied:

Br> That's a nearly perfect bit of artso-babble....

I don't think so.  I've said almost exactly the same thing [1], albeit
less simply and clearly.  I believe I know art babble when I see it.
Beating intricate stuff out of hot iron would be too tedious for words
if it weren't for the stimulus to "philosophic" speculation and
contemplation that it offers.

Well, okay:  Personally, I don't like the "alive" metaphor but it's a
perfectly good one and worthy of further thought.  

Philosophy and art are not bogus domains made up of empty words,
even if a significant (large?) fraction of the people who hang out
Philosopher or Artist shingles think so and write accordingly.

- Mike

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[1] http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/hotiron.html 

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Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada 

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