[MD] Defining Art (was Churning Point)

[Heather Perella]

Platt,

     I am in agreement with you that art is
undefinable, and therefore what is art by one may not
be art by another, therefore, opening the door to a
certain taste of what is good or not so good art. 
Yet, I will have to say that making coffee is an art
in a certain sense.  Only because I believe each time
I make coffee could be just as the very first time
coffee was ever made by humankind (which at that time
and presently if used in this sense of mine,
gave/gives it a more dynamic quality I guess).  Thus,
if I try to make coffee each morning better and better
with a whole-hearted attention to the beautiful
outcome and quality in taste it may bring upon each
try, then I see an art.  Trying to make the perfect
cup of coffee.  Yet, that is the quality of art, you
might not think making a cup of coffee has artistic
value, and I am on your side in the sense that what we
might focus on as art probably has to have value.  If
I where to make a cup of coffee without any notion of
value and perfection, then the art of it originating
in the very roots that began when humankind first made
that cup in a time that had no cups of coffee (a
static culture when it came to cups of coffee versus
no cups of coffee - remember I am not measuring what
makes something an art compared with thoughts of what
makes even better art) that kind of absent of value
notion would probably leave out the artistic quality
in making a cup of coffee.

SA

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