It was smash to bits by both Tories and Labour in the 60s and never stopped. Tony Benn the lefts' hero picked up the baton from the Conservatives and carried on crushing British brand names when he should have been stopping it.
If i was to go industrial scale i wouldnt be in the uk in the first place 😂 plus i dont take cheap labour from accross the world like in the uk, i want proper workers
So a Picasso is just a "home decoration" too and subject to 40% tax. Nobody is asking the best question: why are home decorations subject to a 40% tax in the first place? This is why Britain requires ALL of their subjects to be unarmed. They learned the lesson from all the people rebelling against their insane taxes. The left in the U.S. has learned the same. They know they're going to hit the tipping point where their "subjects" are hit with high enough tax rates for the citizenry to stage armed rebellions against the government. So they're outlawing the guns now, just before that starts to happen.
@@jwadaowself proclaimed nanny state. You guys live on a sad swampy rock. I just got to summit a 13k ft peak in the middle of nowhere, then went to Vegas and gambled, then went to the California coast, then went back home to the mountains for some downhill biking. All in the same country. All accessible because the American way has always been "fk it build a road/business/gaudy piece of infrastructure there". You Brits straight up live on a lower level, it's sad tbh.
I'm guessing the original intent must've been to distinguish decor produced en masse from decor produced by hand, although it must be a pretty wonky legal distinction considering what's shown in the video
Norwegian tax 25-50% not killing any dreams and the citizens has a huge buying power with multiple TVs, computers, robot vacuums, tablets etc in every home. Its not the tax that kills dreams, its the system. Capitalism isnt for the working class nor the science or art part of humanity
@@nameunavailable1330 Oh I'm not British but I agree that they should keep voting labour after, what is it, 14 years of failed Tory policies? And what with the PM backstabbing the normal not-rich ministers by calling for elections so early before they had a chance to get their personal affairs in order.
@@thechaostornado6600any level headed individual knows all UK politicians are scumbags who will exploit this country to fit their own needs. There isn't a single one worth voting for, u may aswell just not vote and hope for the best.
They act like it's fine because with all the loopholes you'll only be paying 29% and you can even get it down to 15% ! Hah but most won't... the British are just disappointing people who make up really unfair rules, they're the masters at making up dungeons and dragons style rules for the government and a silly parliament building where you argue about stuff you can't even control. The world owes the USA a big debt for fighting those british and showing the planet the true path of decolonization
A perfect display of the absurdity of most taxes. The worst thing is that most big businesses probably receive a waiver or rebate or subsidy that offsets this ridiculous 40% tax, but the small-time guy down the street just trying to support himself and his family gets bankrupted over their bullshit taxes. They will squeeze everything out of you while the richest don't pay a damn thing.
This is not the product of taxes but the product of cap ital ism. We used to tax the wealthly the most and the poor the least, now its the opposite, because the rich lobbied to change how taxes work.
@@declaringpond2276no it’s not lol. Taxes is not the product of capitalism. If anything, it’s the product of government intervention into the economy. .
@jfurl5900 I mean sticking his fingers right up to the blade like that. Basic safety procedures would dictate that you need either a push stick or at least some sort of heavy-duty protective glove. This guy's clearly some sort of savant but anyone else would be losing fingers, acting like that.
home decoration is anything used to decorate a home, from throw pillows, rugs, plants, objects and art. i would consider this to fall under the Art catagory. and using the definitions of art i have found, would be fine art. as fine art is art created purely for aesthetic and/or crewtive expression. decorative art, is art applied to decorate a functional object (cookie jar with strawberries painted on it.) applied art, which is a functional object designed with aesthetics in mind (cookie jar in the shape of a strawberry)
Not that unheard of, the USA had much, much higher income taxes for the top incomes (70%). Only in more recent decades have the highest earners paid a similar percentage as the lowest earners.
@@uncleho1945 Not really. In a socialist state, things that are left to private enterprise in non-socialist states are owned and run by the state, which necessitates higher taxes due to increased operating costs of the government.
The Queen and now King Charles bring more revenue into the UK via Tourism than they earn from the State , also remember that the Monarch and all working members of the Royal Family pay income tax on their earnings just like everyone else .
@@vogelvogeltjethe book banning only stops when the same rules banning books "accidentally" means the bible is banned lmao they always backpedal when it happens
This is why as an artist i dont want to sell anything Its practically impossible to make art worth the work The internet really helped me to find customers that like my pieces and are ready to pay the price i ask, and i dont have any shop or anything Im really glad to live in todays time so i can live with my art, its the best thing that ever happened to me
@@us3rG what are you talking about. I sell my art not myself you have no clue about beeing an artist. That's just a sad opinion I only create things I want and people like it enough to buy it. I dont create art for anyone except myself 😂😂 but if people like it, I'm proud to sell it. You just sound bitter
It's always nice to see tools powered by the hands in crafting amazing works, both traditional and electrical. All that matters is that you put your soul into your work.
For those confused by the high sounding tax rate, before the 80's and Thatcherism/Reganomics, Taxes as high as 95% were pretty common. To quote The Beatles "There's one for you, nineteen for me" that is for every 20x you made you only kept 1x. The US in 1986 lowered the top tax rate for ordinary income from 50% to 28% and raised the bottom tax rate from 11% to 15%. It also lowered the corporate tax rate from 50% to 35%. That is if he had been in the US he'd have had 10% higher taxes to pay...
also, the top tax rate only applied to whatever you made over the threshold. i.e. if the threshold was 1 mil/yr, everything over 1 mil/yr would be taxed at 50% and anything uder would be taxed at 11% (using your numbers) so for every dollar over 1 mil you made you would pay $0.50, but everything under that you would pay $0.11
when "machine made" meant using machine tools.. I've seen things about stuff that uses every machine possible, but because it's a human doing it they call it hand made...
There was no "manufacturing tax" in the UK. Willsher claimed it was a hobby, not a business, and therefore not subject to tax. The taxman (and courts) said he was "carrying on a trade", and should pay income tax on the proceeds. In 1968, the UK income tax system started with a standard rate of 41.25% on the first £2000 and additional surtax on higher income bands, potentially bringing the top marginal rate to around 91.25%.
Nothing like being penalized by the government for making neat stuff so the officials can live in 2nd and 3rd houses and also tell their constituents they give "free" stuff to unemployed people.
There are so many bizarre comments on this video... It's like stepping into a strange time capsule for people to complain about things that have zero relevance to the video. Like the video jogged their memory on something unrelated to the main topic but related in the most obscure way...
Literally. I haven’t found a single video of any sort of abstract or other modern art without a stupid amount of comments of people complaining about “that bad modern art that my kid could make” or “banana taped to wall” or whatever.
I guess it depends whether you want to consider vases and paperweights and hunting trophies “art” or not. To the layman it doesn’t matter, but when the taxman wants to charge various activities differently, lines have to be drawn… you just have to check whether they’re drawn on canvas or legal pads.
"... by cutting at an angle." All cuts are at an angle. Every single cut ever made in any application throughout the history of cutting have been at some angle. It's impossible to make a cut that isn't at an angle. 🤦♂️
In what way did he not have representation? I don’t think you understand what this phrase means. You can argue it’s an unfair taxation policy but the man is obviously eligible to vote.
I do not mean to offend anyone, but these band saw sculptures simply don't have profundity or narrative value to qualify them as works of art; however, it is wrong that Willsher was subjected to an oppressive 40% manufacturing tax rate, ultimately costing him his business.
@andrewrussell4707 Wow, your comment was interesting to read. It makes me wish we could have a conversation about it. I do want to say that I hope I caused no offense against you, and I am sorry if I did. But perhaps you should refrain from using such a large brush and paint all the English as snobbish, that is not fair to them.
You know nothing about art. Not only is that not true about his work, but "profundity" also has absolutely nothing to do with quality art. You will never know art
Meanwhile in 2024 losers incapable of drawing stick figures on paper go doodle on their iPads with an algorithm to make it coherent and are hailed as “Artists”.
I remember seeing some of his work in Lewisham Hospital when I trained. My mum worked for Lewisham Council transporting clients and was gifted a couple of pieces of this gentlemen’s work.
I can't agree with that statement. As an artist and a carpenter I sometimes am not sure what to call some of my work. Art with a usefulness or carpentry with style ?
He muddies the distinction between art and craft, not by working wood, or using a bandsaw, but by reproducing his work over and over. The first one was art, after that, and as his fabrication chops get smoother and smoother, his pieces get craftier and craftier.
In what way do those pieces function in the home to improve the ease of use of the home itself? They are pretty to look at and that is their purpose. It doesn't cook food, create heat, condition the air, remove waste, clean/dry clothes, are not power tools or hand tools for repairing the home or things inside the home. It's decorative, or you could say it's artistic... like art...
This is totally and completely artwork! Some people are just out to take joy from others lives! I somehow hope and wish he was able to overcome this crazy 40% tax and is still creating art to this day!
The government officially decreeing that a guy’s art isn’t art is the most British thing I’ve ever heard ☠️
in what way .. elaborate or admit you just talk wet on the net
@@Venenata the British government is infamously authoritarian, and hyper controlling of culture and expression.
@@Venenatahit a nerve eh?
@EloraGrimm not at all I just prefer evidence over anecdote
@@hyocinnoh yeah. It did😂
A 40% manufacturing tax, and we wonder about the decline of British industry. What bonkers policy that was.
It was smash to bits by both Tories and Labour in the 60s and never stopped. Tony Benn the lefts' hero picked up the baton from the Conservatives and carried on crushing British brand names when he should have been stopping it.
If i was to go industrial scale i wouldnt be in the uk in the first place 😂 plus i dont take cheap labour from accross the world like in the uk, i want proper workers
Bonkers to you, but I bet it made perfect sense to the people who were making bank sending jobs overseas.
that's what was keeping the nhs wait times down. take it away and now there's no jobs *and* no doctors.
@@kireclebnul No, that was brexit
What's more amazing is that he still has all his fingers.
I've only been cut and shot by people I worked with in framing. Not once have I've come close to it
shot? @@markjohnson8453
Got to when you lose 40% lol. Nothing like losing almost half your income to make you be safe
So a Picasso is just a "home decoration" too and subject to 40% tax.
Nobody is asking the best question: why are home decorations subject to a 40% tax in the first place?
This is why Britain requires ALL of their subjects to be unarmed.
They learned the lesson from all the people rebelling against their insane taxes.
The left in the U.S. has learned the same.
They know they're going to hit the tipping point where their "subjects" are hit with high enough tax rates for the citizenry to stage armed rebellions against the government.
So they're outlawing the guns now, just before that starts to happen.
@@jonslg240 I guess I'm happy you have something to spend your time on!
I'm happy being healthy and having a big support network
To make those cuts so flawlessly and repeatedly is no less than amazing. This man was robbed.
This is a RUclips short displaying someone’s wood working skills 65+ years later. Respect
56 years later.
@@spudpud-T67Math is hard…
Sounds like he shoulda thrown some tea in a harbor or somethin like that
American taxes were raised higher after 1783. British products with tax were cheaper than American smugglers could achieve without.
You beat me to it
@@jwadaowself proclaimed nanny state. You guys live on a sad swampy rock. I just got to summit a 13k ft peak in the middle of nowhere, then went to Vegas and gambled, then went to the California coast, then went back home to the mountains for some downhill biking.
All in the same country. All accessible because the American way has always been "fk it build a road/business/gaudy piece of infrastructure there".
You Brits straight up live on a lower level, it's sad tbh.
I think that was America, not England
Outraged that they interfered with this man making his art!
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@@bugglemagnum6213 I see your “?” and I raise to: ?? Dude was an artist, it was ridiculous to stifle his art with a bunch of stupid rules.
@@bugglemagnum6213someone clearly didn’t read the text in the video
Whats outraging is people comply with these things
@@marcydrake9159Maybe they thought it was the reporters you were referring to? But yeah this situation was absurd to begin with
How is 'home decoration' not by definition art?
When the government wants to tax you more.
Because tax reasons
I'm guessing the original intent must've been to distinguish decor produced en masse from decor produced by hand, although it must be a pretty wonky legal distinction considering what's shown in the video
Plants can be decoration too without being art
@mipmipmipmipmip Someone designed it, it don't came out of the blue, so is art (although trash art). You are putting the line in the mass production.
40%...... 🤦🤦 talk about killing dreams and progress
Norwegian tax 25-50% not killing any dreams and the citizens has a huge buying power with multiple TVs, computers, robot vacuums, tablets etc in every home.
Its not the tax that kills dreams, its the system. Capitalism isnt for the working class nor the science or art part of humanity
@@deadzen god I love bending over for the government 🤤
In every industry?@@deadzen
@@Cubey7 well, No, if you invest and earn a profit on the investment the tax is only 22%
I pay about 30-36% on average through the last decade
@@deadzen lmao, easy for oil babies to say
They should have not bankrupted him. Clearly that is art!
Keep voting labour
@@nameunavailable1330 Oh I'm not British but I agree that they should keep voting labour after, what is it, 14 years of failed Tory policies? And what with the PM backstabbing the normal not-rich ministers by calling for elections so early before they had a chance to get their personal affairs in order.
@@nameunavailable1330 Your golden boy Rishi Sunak sure did you proud during his last speech didn't he?
@@thechaostornado6600any level headed individual knows all UK politicians are scumbags who will exploit this country to fit their own needs. There isn't a single one worth voting for, u may aswell just not vote and hope for the best.
@@thechaostornado6600 My replies to that guy got auto modded away. 😅
40 effing percent?
England never left the monarchy they can tax and punish their serfs as they please
Coming to a “democracy” near you!
They act like it's fine because with all the loopholes you'll only be paying 29% and you can even get it down to 15% ! Hah but most won't... the British are just disappointing people who make up really unfair rules, they're the masters at making up dungeons and dragons style rules for the government and a silly parliament building where you argue about stuff you can't even control. The world owes the USA a big debt for fighting those british and showing the planet the true path of decolonization
Likely because he sold then as "art" the pieces would be priced at high price which means a bigger percentage in taxes.
@@redlight3932that wasn’t the monarchy or Tories, it was Labour in the House of Commons.
A perfect display of the absurdity of most taxes. The worst thing is that most big businesses probably receive a waiver or rebate or subsidy that offsets this ridiculous 40% tax, but the small-time guy down the street just trying to support himself and his family gets bankrupted over their bullshit taxes.
They will squeeze everything out of you while the richest don't pay a damn thing.
This is by design, corporations want high taxes and high regulation. Because while it does hurt them it guarantees competition is impossible.
This is not the product of taxes but the product of cap ital ism. We used to tax the wealthly the most and the poor the least, now its the opposite, because the rich lobbied to change how taxes work.
@@declaringpond2276no it’s not lol. Taxes is not the product of capitalism. If anything, it’s the product of government intervention into the economy. .
@@SpencerKraislerCan't have roads without taxes, unless you want to pay tolls for every road
@@roycampbell586 Which is literally just taxes at that point. Libertarians should just go make their own country, we'll pick them up in a week
This man has more talent than many of today’s artists. He was definitely a master of his craft and it’s a shame the government killed his career
I just know his shop practice is giving my old woodshop teacher a coronary.
That's the only way to do any woodwork. The idea that you can keep a workshop as clean as an operating theatre is ridiculous and time-wasting.
@jfurl5900 I mean sticking his fingers right up to the blade like that. Basic safety procedures would dictate that you need either a push stick or at least some sort of heavy-duty protective glove. This guy's clearly some sort of savant but anyone else would be losing fingers, acting like that.
Home decoration is literally just art in a house
Yes, functional art 👍
home decoration is anything used to decorate a home, from throw pillows, rugs, plants, objects and art.
i would consider this to fall under the Art catagory.
and using the definitions of art i have found, would be fine art.
as fine art is art created purely for aesthetic and/or crewtive expression.
decorative art, is art applied to decorate a functional object (cookie jar with strawberries painted on it.)
applied art, which is a functional object designed with aesthetics in mind (cookie jar in the shape of a strawberry)
Says the modern era, that was never the case. We all redefined art as such that it ia practically meaningless now
This is literally art
I would be throwing some tea overboard
So why haven’t you?
40% tax in 1968??
socialism/communism. what a great system.
@@alitlweirdAh yes, the famous communist England of the 60s.
Not that unheard of, the USA had much, much higher income taxes for the top incomes (70%). Only in more recent decades have the highest earners paid a similar percentage as the lowest earners.
@@alitlweirdyou need to get a dictionary.
@@uncleho1945 Not really. In a socialist state, things that are left to private enterprise in non-socialist states are owned and run by the state, which necessitates higher taxes due to increased operating costs of the government.
The queen really needed her diamond bidet with that tax
Lady D funeral didn’t come cheap and money was needed.
The Queen and now King Charles bring more revenue into the UK via Tourism than they earn from the State , also remember that the Monarch and all working members of the Royal Family pay income tax on their earnings just like everyone else .
Go chase yourself, fool.
Parliament, not the RF, set the tax rate.
The royal family doesn't get any of this. It's parliament, who needs extra to import some more curry rapists.
Back then it was called machine-made because he used a machine, now it's called hand-made because he used his hands.
Leave it to lawmakers to define what is art 🙄
Oh, it happens here in the US too. States banning books.
@@vogelvogeltjethe book banning only stops when the same rules banning books "accidentally" means the bible is banned lmao they always backpedal when it happens
@@M50A1 There are more than two genders!!!
@@vogelvogeltje yes with pedophilic materials
Man that music is nostalgic
In what universe does that not count as art!?
Those large sculptures were beautiful!❤
UK should publicly apologize to this guy and put up a statue of him. Unbelievable.
Brian was actually a very interesting guy
Actually? Dispite not looking like he's interesting?
Wowowowow that’s so good looking art!!! Thanks for sharing the artist and his work!
This is why as an artist i dont want to sell anything
Its practically impossible to make art worth the work
The internet really helped me to find customers that like my pieces and are ready to pay the price i ask, and i dont have any shop or anything
Im really glad to live in todays time so i can live with my art, its the best thing that ever happened to me
To sell art you have to sell yourself too. It's always been like that. Great artists exist unknown cause they couldn't sell themselves.
@@us3rG what are you talking about. I sell my art not myself you have no clue about beeing an artist.
That's just a sad opinion I only create things I want and people like it enough to buy it. I dont create art for anyone except myself 😂😂 but if people like it, I'm proud to sell it.
You just sound bitter
@@nicolabreuss328 okay
@@nicolabreuss328lighten up man, Christ, he could have meant like once it’s out in the world it’s not your baby anymore. Many artists say that
It's always nice to see tools powered by the hands in crafting amazing works, both traditional and electrical. All that matters is that you put your soul into your work.
For those confused by the high sounding tax rate, before the 80's and Thatcherism/Reganomics, Taxes as high as 95% were pretty common.
To quote The Beatles "There's one for you, nineteen for me" that is for every 20x you made you only kept 1x.
The US in 1986 lowered the top tax rate for ordinary income from 50% to 28% and raised the bottom tax rate from 11% to 15%. It also lowered the corporate tax rate from 50% to 35%.
That is if he had been in the US he'd have had 10% higher taxes to pay...
also, the top tax rate only applied to whatever you made over the threshold. i.e. if the threshold was 1 mil/yr, everything over 1 mil/yr would be taxed at 50% and anything uder would be taxed at 11% (using your numbers)
so for every dollar over 1 mil you made you would pay $0.50, but everything under that you would pay $0.11
Skilled trade+ passion for what you're doing= art
This is a form of modern art I can get behind simply because it doesn't look like something a two year old could make in 30 seconds.
God damn that free hand saw action is amazing
Beautiful!
when "machine made" meant using machine tools..
I've seen things about stuff that uses every machine possible, but because it's a human doing it they call it hand made...
I think the term they're looking for is: independently made
You've seen things about stuff? Do tell...
I’d call this hand machined I guess.
Clocks are a great example.
"Home decoration"
mf *that's art*
There was no "manufacturing tax" in the UK.
Willsher claimed it was a hobby, not a business, and therefore not subject to tax.
The taxman (and courts) said he was "carrying on a trade", and should pay income tax on the proceeds.
In 1968, the UK income tax system started with a standard rate of 41.25% on the first £2000 and additional surtax on higher income bands, potentially bringing the top marginal rate to around 91.25%.
Labour for you. Imagine going to work making a success of yourself only to retain 8.75% of it.
Brits really do find a way to tax everything. It's a shame.
That's why we left and never looked back! 🇺🇲
@@gunnaryoung And how is it going for you , hahaha
@@waveril5167 not really worse than anywhere else in the world...
@@waveril5167If they actually knew they'd be outraged.
@@waveril5167 Oh please, a Briton making fun of American politics and political leaders is like Bozo making fun of Jimbo for being a clown 🤡🤡
It looks so cool and takes so much effort they effortlessly
And he kept all his fingers intact with that saw?!
That’s beautifully done craftsmanship
Super interesting work! 🙌✨
Me trying to use a bandsaw like that: "It's art!" (as I shake a fist of missing fingers).
Nothing like being penalized by the government for making neat stuff so the officials can live in 2nd and 3rd houses and also tell their constituents they give "free" stuff to unemployed people.
Anything created by one is art.
I'll be honest I'm more impressed that it appears he has all his digits
And he managed to save TEN fingers!!!
It's the closest thing to modern art that I can still tolerate
I agree with you
Modern art
.......wtf happening rn
@tsugikuniyorichii7771
This modernist art was made 56 years ago.
There is no "right now," in this here video.
If you wanna sound fancy it’s contemporary art, We just have to live with the fact that modernism was decided as a great name now 😔 😢.
You don't understand modern art. But that's okay.
(yeah, his art is pretty cool)
@@oliveryt7168 i generally understand the concept behind modern arts, but I rarely like the visual representation they make
I'm admiring that excellent bandsaw
There are so many bizarre comments on this video...
It's like stepping into a strange time capsule for people to complain about things that have zero relevance to the video.
Like the video jogged their memory on something unrelated to the main topic but related in the most obscure way...
Literally. I haven’t found a single video of any sort of abstract or other modern art without a stupid amount of comments of people complaining about “that bad modern art that my kid could make” or “banana taped to wall” or whatever.
This is amazing!
Nice art
Au contraire mon frère…it’s ”nice home decoration”!
@@Schlemiel-schlimazeldecorative art is art too.. Matisse is quite decorative.. and it's art.
Oh man, why all the Old Documentaries song are so soothing 😌
I guess it depends whether you want to consider vases and paperweights and hunting trophies “art” or not. To the layman it doesn’t matter, but when the taxman wants to charge various activities differently, lines have to be drawn… you just have to check whether they’re drawn on canvas or legal pads.
Sadly he passed away in 2010 ❤ he was a brilliant artist in his own right
That's some serious bandsaw skills 😮
Now we got people throwing mud at a canvass and trying to charge 40,000
"... by cutting at an angle."
All cuts are at an angle. Every single cut ever made in any application throughout the history of cutting have been at some angle. It's impossible to make a cut that isn't at an angle. 🤦♂️
☝️🤓
"Um ackutally" ahh comment
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🤓🤓
"Statistically speaking" and "according to my logic" are definitely sentence starters you commonly use
so many lost fingers but such a beauty to behold
Controversial?
Homeboy over there crafting the Final Shape!
Oh yaah the taxes
The man knows his band saw. Very cool
I prefer this over paint splatter
The cia pushed that method as art
This is beautiful art. I want one
And they’re controversial why?😂
Because of the insane tax destroying an artists livelihood, raising debates on what is art, and what the state feels unjustly entitled to, I'd say.
Cultivating creativity for artwork is a challenge. Financial obstacles are another struggle :(
Actual craft : NOT art
Banana taped to a wall : ART
????
When the conversation is about what constitutes art and not about overtaxation
okay who gave the carpenter acid ? he isnt supposed to be making wooden fractals all our materials looks like they are staring back at me now ffs.
No measuring marking or nothing all by hand incredible!!
How are the controversial
Made people argue about whether or not it was art
Having worked with a bandsaw in college as a meat cutter, this is mad skill
Taxation without representation... how apropriate of the British government
In what way did he not have representation? I don’t think you understand what this phrase means. You can argue it’s an unfair taxation policy but the man is obviously eligible to vote.
Beautiful art
Amazing! Europeans are amazing!
A beautiful mind takes shape
He has too much fingers
i aint never seen a band saw cut like that before
I do not mean to offend anyone, but these band saw sculptures simply don't have profundity or narrative value to qualify them as works of art; however, it is wrong that Willsher was subjected to an oppressive 40% manufacturing tax rate, ultimately costing him his business.
@andrewrussell4707 Wow, your comment was interesting to read. It makes me wish we could have a conversation about it. I do want to say that I hope I caused no offense against you, and I am sorry if I did. But perhaps you should refrain from using such a large brush and paint all the English as snobbish, that is not fair to them.
You know nothing about art. Not only is that not true about his work, but "profundity" also has absolutely nothing to do with quality art. You will never know art
Respect that man's geometry
Meanwhile in 2024 losers incapable of drawing stick figures on paper go doodle on their iPads with an algorithm to make it coherent and are hailed as “Artists”.
beautiful!!
If the object has no other purpose but to be examined and pondered, then it’s probably art.
The witness unleashing the final shape 💀
It’s art and he’s a pioneer
I remember seeing some of his work in Lewisham Hospital when I trained.
My mum worked for Lewisham Council transporting clients and was gifted a couple of pieces of this gentlemen’s work.
I wish I was that creative.
Love this kind of thinking...
Imagine how expensive that craft would be today
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship
I can't agree with that statement. As an artist and a carpenter I sometimes am not sure what to call some of my work. Art with a usefulness or carpentry with style ?
He muddies the distinction between art and craft, not by working wood, or using a bandsaw, but by reproducing his work over and over. The first one was art, after that, and as his fabrication chops get smoother and smoother, his pieces get craftier and craftier.
In what way do those pieces function in the home to improve the ease of use of the home itself?
They are pretty to look at and that is their purpose. It doesn't cook food, create heat, condition the air, remove waste, clean/dry clothes, are not power tools or hand tools for repairing the home or things inside the home.
It's decorative, or you could say it's artistic... like art...
That art was beautiful unlike all of modern minimalism art.
Love the Background music
It's better than some stuff I've seen referred to as art.
The hand. Control this man has its an art in itself, then out comes a wooden peice of art, amazing
He’s a true artist
This is totally and completely artwork! Some people are just out to take joy from others lives! I somehow hope and wish he was able to overcome this crazy 40% tax and is still creating art to this day!
This gave me anxiety, losing fingers is real
😮 that band saw was so close to his fingers so tense