Artists visualize our steps that are impossible to take without an image.
Without a visual directory, people cannot measure. Can’t dictate, can’t list, direct, or clarify a meaning in every sense of the word.
Strip art from the equation and its impossible for any two people to see the same thing.
It’d be equivalent to writing without ink. You’d have no idea what you’re writing down unless there’s visual depiction of it (through the ink).
It’s unbelievably baffling how a core essental to—to living life—is now reduced to a “useless field with low worthwhile payrate.” This implies the value of life and work based on monetary value, which is capitalistic and catastrophic at best.
And yet this misconception runs as the backbone for an unfortunately large percentage of people—people whose dreams were stripped from them solely because they “don’t pay the bills.”
It is bitterly ironic to stigmatize the Arts—a field that builds the foundation of your whiteboards, python scripts, Business websites and manuscripts, resumes, blueprints, 3D renderings of cars and billboards and factory machines, CAD programs and software, microscopes, entire laboratories, encoded systems and patterns and anything else that ranks a six plus digit income. You wouldn’t have any of this without Design, or anything within the Arts. It’s the same reasoning as how do you build a building without visuals?
Nothing in STEM would withstand itself without art. Visual arts are the backbone to any calculated effort, and the blatant dismissal of this for “monetary value” is capitalistic, again, at best.
Artists hold the same critical impact as any other person with applicable labor. It’s not our fault you trivialized Arts—the bare bones of life and mechanics—to preschool level imagery. Maybe out of your own insecurity of not doing it enough (or allowing yourself to be creative). At the end of the day it’s us you hire to build your website.
Don’t let billionaires (who care less of anything but what’s in your pocket and what you’ll make in theirs, not your master’s degree) trivialize what’s important and worthwhile to you.
signed?
— a tired former MECH ENG major.
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