I believe you have the combination of it all.
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I get a great deal of satisfaction from it because the end result is beautiful, but also useful. People walk on it, drive on it, admire it every day.
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This would be the Servile Art, the usefullness of it and the satisfaction you recieve from.
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I need to achieve something different with photography that is not utilitarian, but philosophical. It has to do with the universal, something to hang on a wall, where it will continue to jog my thinking, and won't grow old
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This is what many of us are searching for or trying to learn. I think it's that next level most are trying to acheive. Which would be the Fine Art aspect.
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It conjured in my mind the feel of a woman's breasts resting on me, the joy and closeness a lover will bring. This is the universal, and if that seed of an idea could be adequately fulfilled in a photograph - well that would be art of the highest sort.
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The photo that started this process could be from the Fine Art class as it took you to that Liberal Art state. It gave you food for thought and that in itself I think is liberating, because your not thinking of an object, but through different senses.
Each level of art is evolved from the lower level and becomes something more.
Just like a painter, he must start with a single brush stroke until it becomes a masterpiece. I think we're the same with photography, we keep trying new and different things untill we find that one photo that makes it all worth while.
It's a never ending learning process.
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