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A picture of the world

Posted on April 19, 2010 by Ville Miettinen

… the artwork, it is the artists that become faceless, tradable commodities. It seems like something Warhol with his assembly line “Factory” and of course, the great Vanilli would have embraced.

While there’s a big difference in the artistic satisfaction gained from molding clay with your hands for hours and tapping a keyboard for a few minutes, the advantages of the latter are also apparent. For a start, it’s easy and you don’t have to wash your hands afterwards. Not only that, …

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