Thoughts On Wheels

Was thinking about this on the ride home today.

In Cultural Studies debates, people talk about high and low-culture.

But what bothers me most, when it comes to art, is that it has become manufactured.

Take a picture, and you can refine it, change the tones, alter the lighting...basically turn it into something the subject never was.

Record a song, and they'll correct all the wrong notes, crystalise your voice...basically turn it into a pristine clean product.

Can we still say that this kind of clinical art is an extension of ourselves, of our hearts?

To me it seems that simulations of a constructed reality is what art is being turned into.


Maybe this simply runs parallel to the importance our society places on perfection.

Is an off-note all that offensive?


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