Just Look

Look at this October 24th Post from Stephanie Pearl McPhee (the Yarn Harlot). Remember when I said that what men make is Important and is Art and what women make is mundane and craft? No? It was here, when I first started talking about the quilt show.

Anyway, this is what I meant. What Stephanie has made is Art. This is not craft (in the pejorative sense). This is Craft. Synonymous with Art. Regardless of the tools used - yarn and pointy sticks rather than paints and brushy sticks. Why do the tools make a difference? Why does the level of functionality make a difference? The fact that an object can be enjoyed more when it is on someone's shoulders than when it is on someone's wall should dictate its value as an artistic object. Not how esoteric it is.

Let's let go of the Artistic Cult of Personality (thank you, just the same, Andy Warhol), and re-embrace the idea of artist as creator.

Or, you can do like I do and hang on Stephanie's every blogged and published word, call her a Genius of the Highest Order, and imagine that someday, there will be a Yarn Harlot wing in MOMA.