12/22/06

New technologies and new concepts in software and graphics have given us new tools to explore our human condition. Art is an attempt to gain some level of control or influence over our humanity. Poser provides many people the opportunity to examine themselves and others in a creative environment. As amazing as this technology is, it will continue to develope and offer ever more realism and control over the final render.

Human beings play with dolls. We do so as children and we do so as adults. Whether we write novels, paint portraits, fashion clothes, sculpt, whatever, we are manipulating conceptual humans. Art, craft, story telling, fantasy, and so on are ways of contemplating what it means to be a person. Make of it what one will, I find this behavior healthy for most people.

I do not have an exclusive handle on truth. I find the thoughts that others have on art interesting and not mutually exclusive. One person’s art is another person’s birdcage liner.

LMK

Probably edited for spelling, grammer, punctuation, or typos.