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Josh "cortex" Millard Apr 12, 2017

Some #art thoughts I've been struggling with:

1. I'm learning to do oil painting. I have a lot of cultural baggage about painting, from outside. Oils as high culture, mastery of art, pure fancy creation.

2. I'm deep in a math art place, variations on Menger sponges and related ideas. Stark geometric objects, fine hard lines and proportions.

The two fit together weird; I feel like my subject is fighting my medium, and yet feel like using tools (stencils etc) to mitigate that is "cheating".

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bright moon

@joshmillard nothing is cheating in art (except forgery 😋). many artists and sculptors use found objects and materials in their work.
if you are using stencils to do absolutely everything in your work, then you may feel that's cheating but I believe it's up to the artist themselves (you) to decide.
all people, including artists, create their own limits and express their thoughts and ideas in whatever way they see fit. it is your work, your thoughts and your art.