art is useless...

I think everyone whose response to the financial struggles of an artist is , "well, you should have gone into tech or something useful" should have to go 30 days with no reading, no TV, no movies, no museum visits, no video games, no theatre, and have arts stripped from all their other experiences... no music in restaurants, at sporting events, bars, stores, nothing. No audio books or podcasts or music on their commute. After 30 days deprived of all contributions of artists, I would be interested to know if anyone would still say artists were drains on society and unworthy of life.

Also go 30 days with no clothes or fabrics of any kind, no furniture, no floorings or windows or doors, no websites (no fonts!), no haircut, no shoes, no meals - because all those things and a billion more were designed by artists. Also - no emoticons!

  

   

The Uncomfortable: 3D Artworks by Katerina Kamprani

"The Uncomfortable" is a quirky series of 3D renderings by Athens-based artist Katerina Kamprani. She decided to create and design for all the wrote reasons. Vindictive and nasty? Or a helpful study of everyday objects? The goals is to redesign useful objects, making them uncomfortable but usable and maintain the semiotics of the original item.

via {Denis Ivanoff}
images via {the inspirational grid}