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Originally Posted by Ron Martin
Just how would I go about creating a work of art.
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Ron,
You know exactly how since you are doing it for a long time.
Example: You decide to create a forest planting. When you create the forest in a pot, you are doing art in the purest form. One can create art incidentally (by accident), like taking a picture which later turns out to win a photography contest (a little later about that), but in your case you are using little trees and a pot and all the tricks you can come up with in order to evoke the image of a forest.
If you just wanted to plant those trees in the pot, without the purpose of creating the image of a forest, you would not be doing art. You would be planting the trees to watch them grow and enjoy the leafs and flowers and whatever you like about them. But when you use those trees to create a certain image in your mind, you are doing art.
(the other day I've read that internet pictures from a certain prison were displayed in one of our modern art museums. they were regarded as modern art, although the people who created them weren't aware of that at the time. whether or not that is art, is very controversial, but there is no such controversy when you are creating a forest)