short thread where @kendrictonn responds to @paulg
in my own experience:
- my taste in woodturning and turned ceramics (a very similar discipline: rotationally symmetric forms) certainly increased a ton after I took up turning
- my taste in literature was developed by writinghttps://twitter.com/kendrictonn/status/1460248269104242698 …
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6/ there are realms that are, say, colored black and there is no red anywhere near them and other realms where red and black are cheek-by-jowl if you pick a black point far away from red points, you show no particular skill in precision or discrimination ...but if you pick a
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7/ ...black point that is razor thin and lands just between two red regions, then you indicate that you know PRECISELY what you are aiming for and that you can make these nanoscopic distinctions I see a lot of embarrassing woodturning and cabinetmaking in certain magazines >
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8/ where the embarrassment is not bc what they did is BAD but because it's FINE buy they seem to think that it's worthy of display. For example, my Shaker style bookcases are FINE, and I know that they're fine-not-great. I use fine wood, I use fine finishing, it's of a piece.
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9/ If I used walnut (pricey!) to execute the same exact design, it would indicate that my perception was flawed. You see people using expensive wood and then using mediocre finishes, or mediocre design (bad or no shadowlines, etc) & you realize that they have no aesthetic sense
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