Mass Production
While reading this manifesto, I couldnt help but think of my prior work in a medium quite suitable for this topic: printmaking. The point of printmaking is to recreate the same piece of art from the same medium to eventually have a series of identical prints from the same artist. Many hidden aspects come into play when saying the word identical or original for that matter. When a printmaker creates a piece, often the printmaker creates something that can withstand a number of inkings and presses but many times the artists has an assitant that actually runs the press and creates the prints. These many prints then are part of a series. So where does the complication set in? Do the prints hold any value to the owner because they were printed by an assistant? Do they hold any value because it is a print of the original work by the artist? These questions still boggle my mind after many years.
