Blarg

"Reselling an item you were not involved in creating is not allowed in our handmade category."

Etsy.com

I'm a little dissapointed but I think that will pass, possibly. I think of factories unfortunately, they literally just suck artful out of the craft and creative process. Craft isn't only present at Herend or Logan Clay Company, it's behind Hanes and the workers who produce for Pier 1 Imports. Personally I think that Collingwood is ego tripping. Does he want to kill craft? The machine, our replacement, is producing craft objects? So the people that produce and develope the exterior panels for our spaceships…. Shouldn't they be associated with craft? Because space ships amaze me, almost as amazing as the Vancati Mouse. These objects and their spread is much different than the companies I mentioned above, it's heavy for me to write these things. The hand and the heart always is troubling. I wouldn't necessarily associate Herend with fine art and design, some would kill me for that statement, but their end is about being a porcelain factory, producing tableware all by hand for the bourgeois and 1%. Worker owned even through World War 2. I have no problem stating that they employ craft but are not making art, I have a hard time seperating things. . . They aren't even trying to memorialize your dinner through uniqueness, it's a super object, like the ferrari. Secular and contemplative only in so far as beautiful and handpainted butterflies.  The exchange is non-artful and would leave me cold. I worry that we are loosing creativity in not only form but through language and perception these days. The Vancati Mouse running around in Herend's show room, now thats some craft based art. I disagree with what most of Collingwood has stated, but I'll post what he's asking for and I hope we are considering the end of the means and the means themselves.

Fairly certain this dish set is close to these from our view within the contemporary.