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Hovis Brown [quote]asm [quote]Hovis Brown [quote]asm I don't understand why people can't just look at something and say "i like it" or "i don't like it" and move on. That's what i do! :) Why do we feel the need to justify our emotional response to something?

i think saying 'i like it' or 'i don't like it' kind of ends the debate over the subject that a particular piece is trying to address. why do you study art? to confirm or deny that you like or dislike something?

surely art is not merely about justifying an emotional response, but rather about something much deeper?[/quote]

Hovis, i don't study art :). I'm at saint martins because I like the thrill of making things. I dunno what it is about the degree, but it's turning me into a complete anti-intellectualist and a complete hypocrit (and making me fantastically angry at the same time!)[/quote]

the thrill of making things? are you not curious about how your work addresses topics that you're interested in? if it's about making things, then why not carpentry, stone masonry, etc.?[/quote]

Yeah but that's not really why i make things... I just think "hmm, I wonder what it would look like if, say, I made a recreation of my own birth using birthing devices made from kitchen utensils and a baby made out of chocolate, delivered from a platinum-based sillicone immitation of a womb?" Then I set about making it, then i find out what it looks like, and am usually quite disappointed. The issues that are raised by me messing around with undeniably loaded topics are secondary for me, but probably not for people who see the work itself.