TINY GEMS

Really nice sculpture and video work by Tom Dale. Added bonus: this guy was in the awesomely-titled show, ‘Is It Better to Be a Good Artist or a Good Person?’ featuring various artists represented by Warsaw’s RASTER Gallery. Here’s an excerpt from the show’s rather-lofty mission statement:

Our focus is on the figure of the artist as a regular or even average man. It’s not just by chance that the exhibition is dominated by portraits and self-portraits of artists. Their authors reflect upon the mission of the contemporary artist and his place in society, but they also share their doubts regarding their own art’s power to influence. Hence, the action of the exhibition takes place between the lure of engaged art and a feeling of the social marginalization of their own art – between a longing for full freedom and the beauty of artistic form, and the basic existential limits of human existence.

So, what do you think, gentle readers: is it better to be a good artist or good person?

(Found via VVORK. Thanks, VVORK!)