Manufactured objects testify to who made them; they describe values.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
How do you know what people value? Well, you watch what they buy. How do we know what products to create? Well, it's based on what they value.
The meaning or value of a thing consists of what it affords.
If you make something, it's an artifact. It's something that somebody or some corporate entity has caused to come into being. A great many human beings have thought about each of the artifacts that surround us. Different degrees of intelligence and attention have been brought to bear on anything.
The currency of universal values make brands innately sharable.
What my work is about is, 'Can something that is not an inanimate object be considered valuable?'
I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods.
When man invents or produces anything of any value, volumes are written on the subject.
Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people.
The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples.
It is the accuracy and detail inherent in crafted goods that endows them with lasting value. It is the time and attention paid by the carpenter, the seamstress and the tailor that makes this detail possible.
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