From Sally Shaw, Colchester, Essex, UK
It is sad that you believe science should be used to rule out the possibility of art, writing that “claims that an artefact was intended as a work of art should be treated with caution, considering all alternative possibilities”. Wouldn’t it be more exciting to consider that something can be both artistic and functional? The interpretation that art is separate, can’t be part of the everyday, the functional, is reductive and a legacy of our industrial past.
