Finding Art inside an old gas stove

Paul Cooke

Found this website and I thought others here might appreciate it.

http://www.stoveburner.com/

Mike T., Swampeast MO

Form--Function

I've never been able to figure out which is more important, but do know when they co-exist in nearly equal amounts that art is the certain result.

If you just look for it, you will see art as a mix of form and function in most anything--Mad Dog's plumbing, radiant tube layouts, even (dare I say) GOOD ductwork.

A lot of people think of art only as paintings and such where function is strictly intangible. As long as you hold such a viewpoint, your work will never have the special "something" about it.

A local tatoo artist and I had a long, fairly high-proof conversation a couple months ago. He utterly insisted that artists, through their quest for pigments to use in their cave drawings, were the true driving force for scientific discovery--in other words, artists made (and still make) the world as we know it.

Even as an art lover (both making and appreciating) this took me by surprise and sounded ludicrous at first. But the more I though about it, the more sense it made.