Post #536770 by little lost tiki on Wed, Jun 16, 2010 1:53 PM

Beautiful work scrimshaw!
Don't know why you hide behind the Craftsman monicker
your work speaks to the viewer and the mermaid definitely hints of a narrative....

Well said
both you and Sven!
especially about the loving what you do and how it shows....
and if do anything long enough and with enough love
good things will come out of it.

Labeling artists and diagnosing them helps nothing.
The stereotype is disturbing and doesn't describe me at all.

i beg to differ on this
diagnosing/categorizing/investigating/and learning about these maladies
may help us to be able to take out the bad parts of the psyche
(but referring back to the original question)
which may be the actual thing that creates this personality type...

example: Without his deep dark depression
Churchill couldn't of accomplished
what destiny had laid out for him...

Could Kafka had written the way he writes
without a horrible physical self-image hangup and other phobias?

Objective- "Craftsman- carve me a boat that can cross the great sea, embellish it with symbols of our culture carved deep, construct it of the finest, strongest trees.

Subjective- "Wow man...like I want to do some acid and explore the deconstructionism of totalitarian politics while redefining artist materials in an anti-art demonstration of retro anti-societal expression...dude...."

can't say the above isn't too one-sided of a comparison...

BUT
if you think of it
we BOTH mark THINGS on SURFACES
plain and simple

Objective view/Craftsman embellishes functional items,for whatever purpose (to communicate cultural recognition/ask for godly assistance/clan markings/foe intimidation)

Subjective View/Artist embellishes useless surfaces with markings that can communicate anything from a simple sunset or the bond of a mother and child all the way to social agitation or questioning the status quo
to capturing unnamed feelings...

Physical Spirit
Profane Sacred
Function Meaning

looks like you can't have one without the other...

tell that to those a-hole "real artists" who didn't respect your amazing work....

man! all this typin is makin me dizzy!

You're gonna find such a range of talent and creativity and art and craft and ingenuity on this forum,scrimshaw!

and seriously, the Toe don't punch no kids...

unless they deserved it!
:)