Ode to useless acts, who are so beautiful and necessary.
But if they're necessary, does that mean they have a use?
Yes, I guess they do.
What is a useless act?
Eating ice cream does not seem to have much of a use.
Eating it makes crying children smile.
I would say that is somewhat useful.
How useful is putting on lipstick?
Some lipstick costs $20 a stick.
It doesn't necessarily make anyone prettier.
It gives a small amount of variety to an otherwise consistent face.
Useful things:
Telling someone the time
exercising
reading the news
buying trash bags
Useless things that it turns out are more useful than useful things:
everything you feel guilty about doing because you don't have the time.
Ode to useless acts, who so beautiful and necessary.
You’d think after spending the time and money to get an undergraduate degree that avoiding manual labor would be the whole point. I’m sort of finding myself in a strange place. As an artist, manual labor can actually be avoided, truth be told. One can be an artist and get very academic. If you are teaching art, promoting art, managing art, critiquing art, etc, you may have just found yourself at the end of the academic road to becoming an artist.
An artist with a Phd. Hmmm. Hammer? Nails?
The fact is that making art means manual labor. Unless you mainly talk about art, which the farther up the academic chain you are the more likely it is that you can just do that. Or another fortunate artist may be able to sell his concepts but not actually make them into anything himself.
I like my manual labor. It’s interactive. Is a Phd overkill? No seriously, I’m asking.
