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Thu Jul 19 09:25:25 EDT 2018
Slept from ten to seven. Woke briefly around four.
High of eighty-two and mostly sunny today.
Stopped at Starbucks on my way to work.
Work:
- 10 AM manager meeting
Done.
- Find evidence number tents for Kristen
Done.
- Damn it, AT&T. Decide what to do about fiber mis-install.
Done.
- Work on move-out photos project
Done.
- Review privacy policy, and send it to Julie
Done.
Twenty-minute walk at lunch.
Not intolerably hot.
Hear cicadas.
Saw a dragonfly, and a pair of deer.
Home:
- D&D stuff
A bit.
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/art-artist-technicians-assistants-edingburgh-art-festival-turner-prize-andy-scott-lucy-skaer-a8452456.html
> They are the invisible hands who build sculptures and installations for which someone else gets the credit, taking on (almost) all of the graft for none of the glory. Their work prompts the perpetual question of what makes art, art – the idea, or the execution?
> For him, the distinction between working “with” and “for” depends on the artist in question. He says: “A lot of artists are absolute about what they want and so they come to you primarily as a fabricator and they don't need any input. Other folk come to you wanting to produce something but not sure how to do it, so they're relying on your expertise, rather than just your time and labour.”
> This expertise extends to metalwork, woodwork, working with plastics – almost anything the artist requires.
> Nor are technicians immune to commercial pressures. “Quite often with the bigger names, their gallery representatives will squeeze you for every penny. They want it as cheap as they can get, but they want it done well. This idea of the artist being in control is nonsense, because if they're represented by a gallery they're jumping through hoops too.”
> We may be living in an era where concept is given more value than process, but he doesn’t buy it, pointing out that without that physical process, there would be no artwork to muse on. “I know that a lot of artists will point-blank deny any element of craft in their work, but what object in the room or thing on the wall or turd on the plaza would they have to talk about without some sort of process?”
Breakfast: cafe latte, sausage sandwich
Lunch: nuts, coffee
Dinner: pizza
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