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@july
I think more because great curation is an art. And as Walter Benjamin in the “The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility” points out - the artistic aura of a work of art matters, the context of the locale and culture it is embedded into matters. The time and space in which it exists matters. It really means that the directness of the experience matters. Somewhere even the knowledge of owning an original painting knowing the artist painted it versus it was produced mechanically in a repetitive manner changes the mood of how one feels towards the work
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July
@july
Why is it that — when I receive a handwritten letter - it is somehow is much more meaningful than receiving an email with the exact same message. The fact that someone used their time for me, is amazing. Not that one is better than the other, just different context and different understanding of the locale that the work was embedded into
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July
@july
Meaningful means that the creator understood the assignment - got a sense for the context of the culture, the relationship and made the thing in that context. The object alone would be thrusting a copy into a foreign context that didn’t understand the context. The full context, and that is in a way worth its weight in gold I think technically the work that was once art today, tomorrow or in the future will become reproducible. But at that point the context and the future will have a different culture and provide different places to embed that work of art into. So I don’t worry about art ever not existing.
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@links
@naomiii is a proponent for letters. She runs /postcards I also write physical letters, mainly for birthdays and Christmas. There’s something of a lost intimacy in handwriting.
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@jacy
definitely a lost art. i love sending handwritten cards, even despite my chicken scratch handwriting 😆
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@zwillow
I love writing letters to my friends.
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