Dr. Genevieve von Petzinger

So art writ large would be any intentional making of a mark in some sort of durable process.

location, surface, etc.

So that at some point, somebody else could potentially read it or understand it.

Yeah.

Okay.

So I think this is a really interesting thing I'd like to point out though, which is that

We, again, because we're human, obviously we're coming from our own perspective.

And then also we're all the products of our own culture and upbringing and everything like that.

We, whether we mean to or not, we treat the Mona Lisa as being more impressive, important, high prestige than the macaroni art that your kid makes you and you put on your fridge.

Right?

Right.

We treat it that way because of our own eyeglasses and our own filters on the world.

We've been told this is worth millions.

This is adorable.

That's really cute.

Way to draw that stick figure.

We don't treat them as having the same value.

I think we want to be really, really careful with that, which is that

We don't know what the intention was with making these marks.

Like making something look pretty or having aesthetic value may not have had any relevance to them.