SevenOfEleven opened this issue on Mar 06, 2003 ยท 48 posts
tjohn posted Fri, 07 March 2003 at 4:28 PM
After reading through this last dozen or so posts, it seems we run the gamut from purist to anything goes. As we should. Can you imagine what it would be like to come here and have everyone agree with you about everything? The Stepford Forum. Creepy. Differences are good. We artists have always seen ourselves as existing outside the norm...we see things other people don't see, hear things other people don't hear. That's what makes us creative. It's good that some of us are Bryce purists at heart. And none of those purists are puritanical, not in my opinion. I don't think any of them would suggest that those of us who love to import our objects and have problems making them ourselves should stop doing so if it allows us to realize our artistic visions. But sometimes it can sound like that if a person says something like, "I don't think it's pure Bryce if you import." Maybe it's the word "pure" that is at fault here. No one wants to think their work is impure. But it's just semantics. Art is all about freedom. We all just have our separate paths to get to that freedom. But the Challenges are different: they're all about rules. If you like the game and want to play, then you have to try to like the rules, too. :^) Tjohn
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