Does it matter whether you make your ink with a plate held over a candle to collect the lampblack or whether you buy incre de chine from the most prestigious art store on the planet?

Does it matter whether you dig for genuine ultramarine in the french muds and spend days grinding it into pigment or whether you let the fine folks at Windsor&Newton expend the elbow grease?

Does it matter whether you shove those polygons into place yourself or whether you buy a mesh where some mathematical genius has already wrestled with fall-off zones or weighted joints?

I have made my own inks and ground my own pigments... but that doesn't make my art more less less "art" than anything anybody else creates. The only thing which matters is the intent of the artist and whether the piece speaks to us.
BTW, congratulations upon being selected!

Carolly

Message edited on: 11/11/2004 14:03