The little knowledge and the big knowledge. Know how as used. Sometimes it is art, sometimes it is not.

Making things is where it began. It being my question about the knowledge value. Today I was reviewing old notes on changes to photography. Changes to the process awareness needed by the user, the artist. When photography began the artist had to make most of his tools. Today it is unlikely that any one person could make the tools in common use by even the first time photographer. Today there is little effort in making the image. Instead of opening our imagination we exercise little originality. An easy image has meant that we accept the early image. What the camera made is all we need. We bought the robot.

The proclamation of “unique” is as usual, as conforming as any worn jacket, fresh from the China Mill. The ease of image making was feared would remove art from life. It has not done that, though it has changed what we will accept. Easy, low effort imagery has not increased our imagination. We use simpler words. Make shorter sounds. View a shrinking variety of images. We are in the shrinking passageway. Our vision has been turned around. The world is not only smaller, it is further away. Our world at the end of a tunnel. Light without vision.