Marko
Active Member
Mostly this, yes - thank you. Knowing how these things are programmed and animated, I know that the true work is done by someone other than Snow.
I took graphic design in college and have dabbled in many art forms from pointillism to tattoos to murals and sculpture. Despite producing many things others would perceive as art, I never considered myself an artist because I always looked at it as functional work, not something that I have to convince someone of its value. I also have some music in my background and despite being in bands, along with producing all manner of signs, displays, movie props, themed environments, etc... I consider myself a craftsman who creates functional products of an understood value.
Art to me is something more esoteric or metaphysical that is more about feeling and expression and difficult to put a value on, because it evokes different responses from different viewers. There's no need for my work to be propped up or promoted by other 'artists' like some sort of self affirmation society. Most of what gets passed off as art is highly questionable and of little genuine value, so it takes a whole industry of people to create a whole economy around crap, in order to get donations, grants, patrons, etc... Nothing drove me more nuts than someone trying to blow sunshine up my ass over my work, when I knew it was little more than "I will compliment you so you will some day compliment me". The art world is full of pretense and horse shit. The last "Oh bravo, Marko!" I got almost resulted in a punch to the face of the conniving person whose mouth it came out sideways from.
The greatest compliment I can receive is getting paid exactly what I asked for because it's worth exactly that, to a buyer who is happy to pay it.
