Disobedient Objects (Victoria And Albert Museum)

 

(Bread and Puppet)

(Guerilla Girls)

Questions:

Can we really influence a field that often appears to be based on connections and Emperor's New Clothes-style illusions?

Should we bother?

Why should we bother?

Would I personally prefer to do something entirely different and ignore that weird little bubble called the "art world"?

Do I really want to be a part of a field where someone can create paintings of vague blobs and colours, all with the same explanation ("Oh, they're about dreams and music") and potentially be taken seriously?

Am I ignoring the idea that art is often intended to be visual communication that transcends words (thus making explanation irrelevant and potentially cheating)?

Can I convince myself that anything "communicated" by vague blobs of colour is more than ideas projected onto the work by the viewer that have nothing to do with the artist's intentions except for maybe sometimes coincidentally?

Do I believe that the few interpretations of vague blobs that tend to be universal (e.g. warmth) are actually worth anything (e.g. warm colours = warmth, fucking wow)?

The Pixar Manifesto (Probably Not In Their Words)

Inanimate objects have feelings, so hoard every toy you ever owned as a child, otherwise you will hurt them.

Screw the need for space and a tidy home; you don't want to make your inanimate objects feel unloved.

All your umbrella ever wanted was to find love, and all you do is make it wet and miserable.

You will only ever be a burden to everything around you, even the inanimate objects.

Even in death you will be a burden to everything around you.

Although, after death you will be an inanimate object. It will probably feel more than you do now.

For The Sake Of Saying You "Did Something" Every Day:

(In case showering doesn't count.) (Not to suggest that I HAVE showered, because I haven't.)

First Piece Of Third Year!

I decided that I could arbitrarily choose some "interests" then read some books relating to these "interests" then choose a medium and figure out some kind of explanation for my chosen medium, OR I could just fill the time and call it exactly what it is.

So, this here is a cross stitch piece. I do not care what the Arts and Crafts Movement was. I do not know if that was a relevant comment. I shall not Google it to check.