Hi Razd (and others),
"Artist" (IMHO) seems a *pondering* term:
Turning out thousands of copies of identical clay pots is not art, but incorporation of the "happy accident" can make the difference between pedestrian and art. ... Life is a work of art.
Scriptures indeed cite God as "Potter" ... albeit, not slinging "happy accidents" ... Here the Potter predestinates, I'm afraid, as per Romans 8,9:
Rom 9:21-23 (KJV) Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory ...
The universe is a work of art.
'is', 'wss', and 'will be' a work of art ... so its evident. Scriptures state:
Rom 1:20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse.
... a very detailed design of an object does not necessarily display great creativity in art.
A Definition of Creativity: ingeniousness , ingenuity , invention , inventiveness , originality.
Seems to me, a 'happy accident' design oft involves (unrecognized) elements of immense creativity.
E.g., 'Pissing a 'happy face' on the wall':
Requires: creatively fashioned (1) tools, (2) techniques, and (3) materials:
1) That exquisitely designed drawing instrument (AKA, Penis) contains immense biochemical complexity that exceeds in harmony, symmetry and proportion, and by extension, creativity (beside sex) ... yes?
2) And possesses advanced biomechanical technique coordination (which seems, by definition, akin to being ingeniously fashioned biomechanics) to *non-creatively* 'squirt' a 'happy face'.
3) The drawing medium itself (AKA, urine we presume) contains rare-in-the-universe molecular and quantum 'fine' arrangements (H2O, Carbonaceous arrangements, etc.) that beg ingenuity.
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