Here is my thought on the difficult statement Ly is making. https://twitter.com/lynncee_faulk/status/1348989719271649280

The difference between a sketch of no regard or finger painting by a child and ART as perceived is the frame and gallery positioning. What? you cry. You believe there is a substance difference? An intention difference? Not really.

The mechanism of distribution, the medium of publication, the framing matrix - these things have a weird control over perception and reception. Imagine releasing a poetry reading show on ESPN. There is a mismatch.

Social media is scroll town. Galleries, books, readings, things which bind and present a work as expressive art in context do not work in scroll town. In scroll town, there's only 2 factors: 1. speediness of digestion/impact, and 2. fan base.

Except in the margins, I do not believe social media to be a healthy mechanism for the framing of expressive arts. Creators will feel too much like Hermey. Constantly working against the medium.

Yes, social media replicates the pixels and words in the same arrangement as the work, but scroll town doesn't care. I see amazing work suffer because of this. @lynncee_faulk sees it. @WillyGCmas sees it.

If someone wants to post meaningful work on social media, I hope to see and show my admiration, but seeing is hard in scroll town because new, next, new, next, new, next.