Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Hand-Crafted for the Masses

Popular art in this place is decoration.
It's soft.
It's not always easy but its risks are usually safe.
The calculated, concentrated artist is not one.
She's a designer.
Art is not design, though design can be artistic.
Decorative artists don't press hard
against the canvas.  Decorative artists
are not artists.  Decorative artists
are capitalists.
Art can be a means, but if that is all
it means, it is not art.
Art is not just
for looking, it's about teaching you
to see.  Creating art can be learning
to see.  Creating art can be
observing the act of observation.

Popular art here is for the masses.
If it's all the same
I'll keep to myself.
Art is not wallpaper,
and yes, wallpaper can be
art, but art is expression.
It's experimentation.
It's learning to see by really looking.
It's questioning the familiar
and answering a question with another
question.  Everything you see
is not art and somehow we are
all artists.

Popular art in this space
is not art.  It is decoration.
Decoration doesn't pinch or
even prick.  There are no
certain risks.
Popular art is not
my medium.