Conversations

Ask anyone "What is art?" and they will give you an answer. Ask an art student and they will run a mile - you know who you are (-:.

We were talkin "dust baby dust" Buildings hold a lot of it. The dust has significance in that it is a metaphor for the buildings history. Anyway the history of a buiding is embedded in its structure. You can feel an energy from certain places. I feel it at the top of munroes, from the stones I gather on my way back down. I feel it in some furniture. In walls and on walkways. Old objects hold more energy than new because they have more of a story to tell; a longer history to share.

The Viking ship museum in Roskilde - an investigation of DUST in the exhibition by Morton Rhyl-Svendson:
The problem with dust
As the ships are exhibited in the open gallery without any barrier to the visitors (fig. 2), the ships become very dirty. They are therefore cleaned once a year by a conservator, mainly by vacuum cleaning. This is a major and time-consuming job, not without risk of mechanical damage to ships. Small components may be sucked up, and at some spots the dust can be hard to remove.
In addition, we had concerns that the dust contained chemically aggressive compounds, which would deteriorate the wood surfaces - eg. sodium chloride from the water inlet.

My sister said that "art is created by someone and its visually pleasing. Its confusing and environmental. some people say its pointless. " She said that the dictionary definition that art is from the hand and not the mind is a lot of rubbish because without the minds of the artists and the 'fruit-cakeiness' of where these ideas come from we wouldn't have the beauty." Also "its important for her to be on the receiving end of what artist produce. And that an artist is like a good plastic surgeon - both the mindset and the "hands" are required to produce the art work.

Marcia Hafif in a book called "m/e/a/n/i/n/g" I like to think of making art as a many layered process. The person who digs down into the psyche, by using chance, contemplation, or some other method to come upon images that are then put into a physical form and made visible to others is acomplishing the original foundation of the work.p127

We were talking dust and came to the conclusion that its a combination of different things. I think that parts of all the old students are embedded in the building. Everybody that has passed thru the building has left some microscopic piece of themselves in the atmosphere. It then floats gently onto something and becomes dust dust dust.

My mate said about art that it was a three lettered word starting with a vowel and ending in a consonant, He then got all philisophical about it and talked of things like What is life then? and what is thought? that some art was useless and some not. This made me think about what if art did not exist....Can you Imagine a life without art?