/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>9064767
>>9064357
I design/build furniture and do basic tailoring for myself, plan to start building garments when I have the time. I get that some people find the act of "making" meditative or whatever but I don't see why that would be the end-all to the activity, why you'd lock yourself into something as creatively limiting as recreation.

ie I don't just build furniture, or get together with people who do also, I do it because there are designs I want to explore in the field, routes towards reframing the way it's understood, etc. The community I would engage in would be people with a critical familiarity with the mediums, a sensitivity to their historical background and context and an appreciation of what I'm doing or other artists embarking on similar engagements.

It's not just stuff I made for the sake of making it and learning skills. If that's the extent of the higher reasoning, how isn't that shallow? And why something as arbitrary and meaningless as recreating the costumes of fictional characters? It's very low culture, an intellectual & artistic dead end. I suspect it has mostly to do with a desire to stand out at conventions, get photos taken, etc. as well as competition.