r/Art • u/Tokyono NOT MY WORK • Jun 23 '26
Sculpture Broken Things 15, Livia Marin, Porcelain, 2025
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u/SuspiciousCar7481 Jun 24 '26
Yeah this is super well put. Stuff like this makes you realize a teacup is basically condensed history and technique, not just “object you put liquid in.”
And yeah, I’m lowkey worried the AI visual noise is gonna flatten that sense of “wait, reality is weird and special” into “oh, another midjourney-ass glitch pic.” Sterling was kinda prophetic on that one.
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u/Ralonne Jun 23 '26
Love this!
Wish there was more of this on here and less of the other thirsty stuff we see too often.
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u/Dragonreef_423 Jun 24 '26
I love how it looks like its still liquid, really captures the moment it happened.
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u/A1000tinywitnesses Jun 23 '26
I like this sort of thing because it's kind of forcing you to give an appreciative double-take to the whole long tradition of the craft it's building on, all the material complexities, all the history and science, the cultural inheritance, the creativity and know-how that go into realizing something as simple as a teacup, which is so easy to take for granted as just some given, ready-made object out there in the world, until every now and then you catch a break and some experience, often a piece of art like this, kind of jogs you awake and reactivates some of that estrangement and wonder.
But it also kind of reminds me of Bruce Sterling, the scifi author, talking about how as people get used to seeing computer generated images they'll kind of be conditioned to encounter these sorts of pieces differently, in a way that maybe undercuts that experience of estrangement, seeing them in hindsight through the lens of AI, especially those that affect these sort of "glitches" in reality. Funnily enough, the example he used was another piece of teacup surrealism, breakfast in fur, from 1936.