i believe, the closer i get to the so called art world, the more i find out it has trouble accepting itself as what it is. i see an art fair as regular and consumer-oriented as a book fair. obviously, things vary monetarily a lot more in the art fair, but that is what it is to me. art is simply a product, but that does not make it less important. we never took an oath, like in med school, that we should keep to our ethics. and some people, from artists to curators, when they enter this so called realm, they sometimes take themselves too seriously. they have the arrogance to believe that art is something higher. i think the definition is wrong there. art, nowadays, is just a product. you buy it, you collect it, you sell it. it's a commodity.
design has a much easier profession and therefore understanding of itself. despite some arrogant designers, they still maintain the function aspect of it, so they still have to bring it down to earth.
art, though, insists on being illuminating, more sophisticated and higher than everything else. maybe that's how it started, but today, i disagree.
the way i make art, i use it for myself only and to me, it's not about profit. it's creative and emotional (not necessarily a burdenlike weight, which, again, many artists insist on). my art is the way i express myself and to me, it's just a type of language. it is also my job to make myself and my language understood, if i do want to communicate. i believe art, when done for myself and true to my heart, does communicate with other people. and that is the beauty of it. and that is my chosen point for it.
but as far as the art circle goes, it's part of the rest of the world. and artists are suppliers. and galleries are stores. and consumers are consumers.
(ps: this is too short of a post to explain all the philosophical boundaries of all these thoughts, and what roles artists play, and what roles museums play, etc... but i'll extend this to a few posts, i'm guessing)
