Some #art thoughts I've been struggling with:
1. I'm learning to do oil painting. I have a lot of cultural baggage about painting, from outside. Oils as high culture, mastery of art, pure fancy creation.
2. I'm deep in a math art place, variations on Menger sponges and related ideas. Stark geometric objects, fine hard lines and proportions.
The two fit together weird; I feel like my subject is fighting my medium, and yet feel like using tools (stencils etc) to mitigate that is "cheating".
@joshmillard I have analogous feelings about music!
I do pretty much entirely electronic stuff out of necessity, but I have a deep aversion to sampling, mostly because it feels like it somehow makes the music less "mine."
And yet! I don't hold anybody else's music to this standard! I love genres that heavily use sampling, and I'm constantly blown away by people who do it creatively.
