Value Judgement Response (Petersilge)

Rather than thinking of “handmade” as something that is outdated, I prefer to think of it as existing in an evolved form, coherent with the technology that has become a part of our every day lives. The role that human hands play in creation and production now exists more deliberately. It has shed its ties to production necessary to sustain a society, and exists now to oversee the work that machines do for us. In that sense, design overshadows art function-wise.

Aesthetic pleasure, however, is arguably a function. In a society where aesthetic pleasure can be obtained from merely playing a game of one’s phone, galleries may seem obsolete. Art is, however, incorporating itself into the technology that now exists, and is adapting as such. People are intrigued by artists working in technologically based mediums, while inadvertently supporting traditional art as well. As we have so many times before, we are merely adapting (not forgetting) traditional art to the way we presently exist. It is alive and well, in the hearts of those raised in a technological explosion.