Happy for him but this has no real artistic meaning compared to doing it in any other way. Odd to see things like that on HN.

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cs702 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Hi, I submitted the OP because I found it cool and interesting, esp after seeing the clip of the artist creating a piece using only a hammer.

My only motivation for submitting the OP was thinking that others here would find it cool and interesting too.

That falls within the HN guidelines, don't you think?

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AStrangeMorrow 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I disagree quite a bit. For me the medium, the technique, the process is all part of the art. Yet I still think the end result is also critical. But coming up with create ways to produce art matters.

And I am confused about the “doing it any other way”? I don’t really see other ways to achieve the same result. Say painting and photography will both produce end results that are quite different. The skills are very different. The end material is also quite different. The same way stained glass is quite different from painting

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hresvelgr 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I might agree with you as a knee jerk, but I believe "the medium is the message"[1] and I don't think there's anything particularly meaningful or evocative about shattered glass as opposed to any other planar medium.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message

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jameshart 4 hours ago | parent [-]

There is no meaning in converting a conventionally destructive, random, chaotic act into a directed, aesthetic, meaningful one?

The fact he has a portrait of Kamala Harris called “glass ceiling breaker” and one of the victims of the Beirut explosion called #weareunbreakable suggests that you don’t need to dig particularly deep to find meaningful subtext in the choice of material and technique.

If anything it’s maybe a bit on-the-nose.

	▲	hresvelgr 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> If anything it’s maybe a bit on-the-nose. This is what I was driving at. I should have been more specific to say not particularly meaningful or evocative to me. From the previews I've seen it's all based around shattering and breaking. Where I will give credit, there's one: "Transformation" where natural light is reflected at the shattered glass to portray a face which I find to be fascinating. The rest feel kitschy, it's not quite to my tastes.

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bstsb 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

while i’m definitely a newcomer in HN terms, i love seeing things like this on the front page. it’s certainly interesting

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antirez 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

I love that HN has a diverse set of topics, I didn't mean that. I mean: here usually the artistic and literature stuff appearing are more interesting. This looks like the average Facebook art content with many upvotes.

	▲	cs702 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Ah, I understand what you meant now. Without judging the artistic merit of these pieces, I submitted the OP only because the idea and process of "painting" on glass with a hammer struck me as cool and interesting (pun intended). In any case, artistic merit is always in the eye of the beholder.

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AStrangeMorrow 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Same here. As much as I enjoy a lot of the technical stuff, I never click on 80% if it because it is often “thing that already exist but in lisp/rust/etc, new tool similar to X to free/one extra feature/lightweight”. So unless it is a strong interest of mine, my area of expertise, or something that makes me curious it is a skip.

Stuff like that though always makes me curious

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amarant an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

If you can't tell the difference between oil on canvas and artistically shattered glass at a glance you might need... New glasses!