If "a thing of beauty is a joy forever", what is an ugly thing?
Can I justify bringing objects and freshly created artifacts into the world?
It's not like music. Or a live performance.
(or the anonymity of coded magnetic tape
or a shiny naked disc
or 1's and zeros)
Once a song or an act is performed, its over. Its gone.
It hangs in the air, gilded in people's memories, in their subconscious.
But a piece of visual art is there, on the shelf, on the wall, on the plinth.
Then it is either bought and valued or discarded or hidden.
Or destroyed.
Or forgotten about.
It could be shown, shared, or stored.
But it still takes up space.
Obstinately.
