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Not me, I'm not good at art. I actually just really like building stuff. I guess I'm lucky that gets me paid well.
It depends. I think what seperates art with non-art is creation and a sort of drive for impacting others positively and create something you are proud of.
Carpentry is absolutely art.
Stonework was traditionally art.
Metalwork and glasswork is an art.
Mechanical systems are also an art.
Good electronics design is an art.
Making actually good, useful software that people find great and user-friendly while being featureful is an art
Hell, electricians and plumbers who are passionate about their work (and not exploited) can leave behind absolute works of art that nobody will ever see.
Motivation, skill, and goals separate art from being slop work.
There is a ton of traditional "art" that is just profit-driven slop that isn't art: see the entire art-to-money-laundering industry, Spotify AI music and a lot of generated non-composed shit, industrialized sculptures and decorations meant to be so generic they fit in every person's house.
I think you can argue that building things is an art in itself.
It puts the "create" in "creative"
Absolutely
My art tends to catch on fire when powered on instead of whatever I wanted it to do.
Leonardo, meet Michelangelo.
I'm not worthy of holding a candle to the master of the craft.
outsider arts still art
That's just exciting art
Relays are expensive.
Then it just turns into performance art.
The art of making the house smell like atomized circuitry.
And how beautiful a flame is. Evokes emotion too, like panic. Definitely art.
Oh hi Spencer
Supporting people through insightful turns of phrases is also an art form in of itself
If you didn't have to worry about paying the bills, you would have more freedom to spend a little more money or time on things that you are building. To me that crosses into the art category. There's plenty of architecture, furniture or cars that I call art just because those people had more funding and time.