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Comment by Mim Golub Scalin on January 7, 2011 at 1:05am

Yes, Andy, there is Installation Art, as an art form, and yes, your REAL WALL, is definitely in that catagory.

Comment by andytgeezer on January 6, 2011 at 10:47pm

When someone called me an "installation artist" because of my REAL wall I really thought they were joking. Is there really such a thing?! Now I see the value of it.

 

I think even putting postcards up on a wall requires that you arrange them in a way that you imagine to be visually appealing and this understanding of how to make something more visually palatable is what we would call our art. 

 

In your case Camel, even the reproduction of traced patterns requires not just careful hand eye coordination but also a decision making process that has to make decision choices on whether your moves will make something look better or not. If you were a Xerox machine your tattoos would look rubbish, but your artistic pride wouldn't allow that. 

 

There is art in anyone who can take something they put their hand to and make it beautiful. 

Comment by Poison Label Productions on January 6, 2011 at 12:12am

On the topic of "am i an artist?"

I did not consider myself an artist until very recently...

I even spent the first 8 months of my tattoo career calling myself a tattoo specialist, as anybody can trace an image & color inside the lines.

 

then a tattoo colleague said to me:

"Dude - WTF is a tattoo specialist?"

I told him "a human copy machine"

he told me that the work in itself is an art & it takes some skill to do it.

 

anything in which you put your skills to work - is an art & that is what makes you an artist.

It is the art of Kung Fu - the art of motion

Everybody can have Kung Fu in what they do.

 

NO - I still cannot draw & No i do not normally create custom art for tattoos.

But i do specialize in taking peoples crappy tattoos & turning them into something nice.

 

If ya really want to get left brain - wrap your mind around this....

everything on earth can be described with math & math is certainly an art....

A calculative art - a language art - a theoretical art

 

Comment by Mim Golub Scalin on January 5, 2011 at 11:43pm

After many years as a Univ. art teacher where I had to grade aspiring artists, it's a real pleasure to be in an accepting, encouraging atmosphere, where there are no grades, where everyone be a part of a creative community. Mail Art rules!

Comment by PostMuse on January 5, 2011 at 10:41pm

I received Paula's lovely collage featured at the bottom of this post. Thank you, Paula!

Comment by McFloozy on January 5, 2011 at 9:44pm

Hi all, I am much closer to a spelling person, and not an artist. So, please, be gentle with my novice art. We each have our talents, and frankly 'posivity' is just the best!

 

I now have a copy of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. We shall go on an adventure and see if there are cobwebs or small, migrant mammals burrowed in there.

 

I appreciate the friendly, happy, accepting nature of this MailArt world. It's not too intimidating for those of us who grew up in the Other Side of the Brain.

 

Best,

McFloozy.

Comment by Poison Label Productions on January 5, 2011 at 9:05pm

I am not sure about any o yall...

but i am an artist & naught an english majior...

 

Laurence - no one is correcting your spelling here.....

I cannot tell you how many things I have misspelled on mailart...

Comment by Laurence Roberts on January 5, 2011 at 8:17pm

oh dear -- sorri bout the typos :(

Comment by Laurence Roberts on January 5, 2011 at 8:16pm

This conversation is so thoughtful and sensitive. I feel touched by it.
(And releived).

Yes, what Mim says about daily proactice is really encouraging and has a beuaty. Over the last month or two I have been making daily and got into some kind of roll, some kind of rhythm. I am so glad. And it is helping me to maintain greater positity (oops) posivity and coming to iuoma really really helps.

I hav started looking at the work from yesterday, each morning-- now dried, and waiting for me. It is a great help and I feel connected back and forward with less space for anxiety or paranoia to kick in.

The 365 concept really is a support too, and a lovely thing to be there. I have been writing 365 on them but not the day' or the day in 365 terms. I think some are- hope this won't matter too much. Some days I may make more than just the one 365,

Btw I really like 'positity' !!

Comment by andytgeezer on January 5, 2011 at 7:33pm

I second that Mim. With regards to signing up for piece I would obviously sign up for every piece I see. Personally I like the surprise myself

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