tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6455130389085841132.post1088832099437328346..comments2023-10-09T07:49:02.715-07:00Comments on material witness: Appropriation material witnesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14927065463268023024noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6455130389085841132.post-86484051876223663322013-01-29T19:28:06.324-08:002013-01-29T19:28:06.324-08:00I'm terrble about sharing. I try to give credi...I'm terrble about sharing. I try to give credit where it is due and try hard not to steal. No doubt there are things I learned in passing that forgot where I got them. but you and I have both had stuff rpped right off. Once a whole artsts statement ncludng the spelling mistake. I just fumed. I wanted to tear it apart. <br /> material witnesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14927065463268023024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6455130389085841132.post-28082214458888893322013-01-29T15:17:07.211-08:002013-01-29T15:17:07.211-08:00Obversely there are those who think they have &quo...Obversely there are those who think they have "invented" something and want no one to do it any way but theirs, to not teach after they experiment with it, or to share---some "appropriation" is necessary in educating ourselves, don't you think?<br /><br />I'd ban running stitch--it's not always Kantha!!!!!--and the use of birds (not Fry's birds :) )and "sacred symbols".arleehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14036114069539254266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6455130389085841132.post-28467236501371433602013-01-29T07:22:27.278-08:002013-01-29T07:22:27.278-08:00Gotcha there. I attended an art talk this weekend ...Gotcha there. I attended an art talk this weekend in Penticton and heard the artist Eliza Fry descrbing her horror at having her sculptures called whimsical. Her birds carry burden but they are birds and therefore classified as cute. <br /><br />I, for one, want to ban the colours cobalt blue and magenta for just a month. Just to see the crisis that would create.<br /><br /> material witnesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14927065463268023024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6455130389085841132.post-64056684732231792082013-01-29T06:40:34.184-08:002013-01-29T06:40:34.184-08:00OH P, so well said. I'm sick of "whimsica...OH P, so well said. I'm sick of "whimsical", "art journals" and "quilties" all labelled as art---the names alone give away the level of skill--and those who appropriate and rename a stitch in their own honour, their cloud cult sycophants and their fake earth mother proprietary attitudes. arleehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14036114069539254266noreply@blogger.com