I have to say that I adore your triangle of play / meaning / craft.
I think I tend to favour art that sits in the meaning / craft bucket. At the same time, there's fun playing with the craft. Playing with the meaning, ... that might be your friend's post it notes in the bathroom.
I feel as though, if we put those "labels" on Art, or it was part of the process of "proper" curation, a lot of art would be much easier to understand.
I had a friend read this post (they know very little about Art in general) - and they appreciated the depth of the discussion - I'm going to ask them to come back and read your comment and see how much simpler it makes understanding Art.
(That friend isn't on HIVE - they're not really a writer)
Speaking of fucking with people's expectations - I love do to that, not with Art, but with my appearance. I am fairly lazy (I bathe... I shower, I clean) - but I haven't had a hair cut in who knows how long, and have a beard that is untamed, untrimmed, and unbrushed. I don't take "pride" in my everyday appearance.
But I like to wow people with deep insight, profound conversation, and the unexpected fact that I am just a teddy bear, wanting to spend time with everyone to learn their story, their views etc.
Returning to your triangle of art for a moment. I've got a fucking Masters Degree in Visual Art, and your three words of play / craft / meaning distil the entirety of Art history so well, because you can probably categorise every movement using a weighting of those things.
THANK YOU for you comment. My Voting Power is trashed at the moment, thanks to the unexpected success of my "nine years lol" post, but you have trashed it further :P Therefore, I summon @topcomment
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