He started talking about his daughter, he said “she’s an artist too!” I probably didn’t flinch but I was taken aback by the assumption that I was an artist. Sure I make pots, but ART…well that is an entirely different thing all together….or is it?
Tonight as I was sitting at home, contemplating some recent transitions in my life, that comment came back to my mind, as it has several times since that day in June. Who can be called an artist? At what level can your work be classified as art? Who makes that decision anyway and does it cheapen the concept to call anyone who creates something out of a prescribed medium an artist?