From: "Judy F." 



Gary Britt wrote:
>  Further, your subjective experiences about your > work which border on the
mystical would be completely irrelevant to an
> atheist artist (the subject of the discussion) because atheists do not
> believe in anything except neurons, chemicals, serotonin, and electrical
> impulses.

No, there's nothing mystical about what I experience.  Every artist says
  their works take on a life of their own...be they a christian,
agnostic, buddist or whatever.

  The inanimate could not have a life of its own, atheists barely
> think people are alive.


Funny the most "Christian" people I've ever met in my life are
usually agnostics or athesists.

   You have never painted over one > of your own works?

Actually, I don't paint, but sculpting would better describe what I do. And
yes, I redo, or redraft pieces I'm working on.  But to say I have complete
control is wrong.
>
> The artist does with the artists creation whatever the artists wants.  Your
> the art takes on a life of its own, is just as meaningful as the Son of Sam
> taking orders from a dog in a hole in his wall.

Really?  Didn't know son of sam was an aritst.  No, there's really nothing
mystical about art taking on a life of its own.  And unless you create art
on an ongoing basis, I suspect it's not something you'd understand.

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