I moderate [email protected] and so far I have not encountered a single disturbing post that had to be removed. I imagine in non-political areas of lemmy, people are more chill.

I live in mortal fear of this copypasta

at first, I thought this was a sketch about a pedophile

Then I checked out SNL's greatest hits

All that skill and still didn’t create Attack on Titan

give the man a break; it took him 16 years to finish one painting, imagine how long it would take him to finish an entire manga!

I'm gonna use this one comment to react to everyone else here.

I don't know if I should feel amused by the controversy this post has raked up, or feel happy finding out that the community is active after all (I was genuinely starting to believe we were dying out)

So I kind of feel both??

This artist is a self-proclaimed 'object arranger' so I think his works fall under 'arrangement art.' pretentious or not, I do believe in celebrating experimental forms of art rather than alienating them for not conforming to what is 'traditionally' accepted.

speaking of, to the people who feel confused by the name of the community, feel free to give the side-bar a little look-see for clarification. It's the best I could do under the circumstances and I positively believe more are in favor of it than against it. (I certainly think it's better than vague but misleading alternatives like "ArtPorn" or any kind of "Thing-Porn" for non-pornographic stuff, which is terminology that's somehow commonly accepted by people who grew up with reddit)

As far as my personal interpretation goes: I find myself reacting to the work the way I'd react to a sandcastle made by a little child, or ancient cave paintings or sculptures (like waaaay back, thousands and thousands of years ago where finding an odd shaped rock made you the coolest caveman in the tribe, for a month)

I think the only thought It has provoked in me thus far is: when does a pile of things cease being a pile of things and turn into a reflection of the time and place where it's from? would people react the same way if they saw an unexplored cave with specific arrangements of rock?

But yeah that's about all the attachment I have to this particular post. His works are in a folder among other folders which I shall empty 5-6 files a day so no, i will not stop posting this person's work until I've emptied out all the folders. feel free to upvote/downvote accordingly

And yes, to the extent that no-one other than me posts to this community, all the posts in here will be heavily flavored by the preferences of the ones posting. Don't like what you see? stop being grumpy about it and POST THINGS which you do like!

If this is shallow, show me what you think is DEEP!

peace

i support numbering the art for referencing, but i'm also a big fan of artists choosing not to name their works because that'd leave the viewers with a greater freedom for interpretation. they'd have to be more abstract for this to make sense though.

this

so much this

is it just me or does this community have zero posts?

the disparity between posters and subscribers is larger than expected.

in the community i moderate, there are just 2 consistent posters (including myself) and about 3000 subs, of which a good 150 seem to be active in total. that's 0.05 of the aggregate subscribers.

I created [email protected] for this exact reason

faxolotl

Reduces the printing cost I imagine.