How Creativity is Killing the Culture

Fine let it die. it has been on it's way out for awhile now. Seriously though. This article brings up a sad point and one of the reasons I'v always hesitated to call myself an artist and force my visions on the world. There are too many, and it is saturated, and who says who is good anymore. I partially agree that all people should have something that energizes them makes them feel necessary and relevant in the world I don't think that all are endowed with the talent and skill to share these inner experiencees thru an art form, but if it makes someone happy or fulfilled to write a bad song or paint a mediocre painting let them, look around, listen i think there is plenty of mediocrity that is celebrated all around us, maybe that's the point....I've felt this way about photography for awhile now too. Everyone is a photographer what makes me any moe better or relevant than anyone else? cause soon i will have a degree that should give me slightly more validity. whatever there are just too many people period unfortunately you can't pick who should be kicked off the island. and if no one made crap what would we laugh at?

Ok so iread the rest of this article, So what do we do how do we stop this march toward pablum in the art world? Fallon offers no solutions only grips which I agree with. This is a problem one I have always considered butnever put into words. Yes Yes Creative People Must Be Destroyed I mean Stopped. But it is not the truely creative people who are at fault, I can't help the brain in my head and what I am driven to do did't used to care if anyone even looked at my work. school has influenced me to show my work is this wrong? Should I change my mjor to Psychology? Help what is a creative person to when surrounded by imposters? Am i an imposter?

Mr Goldsworthy and the Jews

I gotta say i agree with a good deal of what Harriet is ayin in this article. It seems thta all of this would have been clear in Goldsworthies proposal. i thought that ahving a show of other proposed works and getting more public input on the nature of this memorial would have perhpas solved this issue. The fact that by placing stones at this memorial the viewers read it like a grave site would be evidence of the feeling it is inspiring. I'm all about a memorial to the idea and process of death but in this case maybe not so appropriate. I also feel that work should stand on its own without cards to provide that "key of understanding" The people obviously see it as more representative of death than honor or tribute. The fact that the trees to be planted would not survive seems it was obviousl from the get go. Maybe Goldsworthy is saying that death is monumental and that strentgh comes from the thought that we will all die one day like these trees, cramped and suffocated by the fired stone of oppression that is this world.

Unofficial Manifesto For Truth About Public Art

Not real sure why this is just about public art i think it is about all art. what is public art persay? Any anything anyone can see is public. There will be no secrets in the future. What then is private art? i could replace the words "public art" in most of these phrases with" artist" and they still apply. Ex; I am for artist/ public art that/who aspires to rise above the stature of "merely appealing". I am for artist/public art who/that makes room for irony, earnestness,satire, juxtaposition,contradiction, and revolution. . I am for open spaces and artist and childern yes children in costumes with bombsacting out with bombs and balloons in these places. NO No wait. Tangent. sorry. Point is a I agree with many of these statements but they could be true for other topics not just public art. Being in Charlotte my experience of public art has greatly diminished, sad to say. i really need a vacation- somewhere there's lots of beautifully wrong profoundly erotic and explosive public art that is evolving as I am looking at it and perhapsI am contributing to the evolving. Utopian perhaps but Auntie M Auntie M where is this place? Can it be here ? just in my mind. Been so long since I have gotten out of this town i think I may have almost lost my death grip on the memory of a thriving and uncompromising art scene. Infact I wonder if I imagined it all. OK now I'm sad this sucks! I need public art good public art crazy wildly costumed creatures chanting releasing praying jestating. Things are all to calm a nd placid. Where is this spice that is truely public art. I am for public art that belongs to the public and is created for and by the public and it should be voted on then tossed out and then the public art anarchist guerillas should come at nite and make art as they see. fit. Art iss for everyone. I remeber teaching the kids in this slightly ghetto neighbor hood i lived in how to spray paint cause i knew they were doin it cause i saw their juevinille attempts so i taught them some skillz and the graffitti, or our neighborhoods version of public art improved. whether or not people believe that risk is a permanent condition it is. We risk so much every day without even knowing it. I am for public art that increases awareness of the public and the space that the art and the public occupy.