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Yesterday's comment of the day comes from artist Becky Knold in response to Weekly Volcano's art critic Alec Clayton's post on the similarities between the works of local artists and that of more well-known national or international art figures.

Knold writes,

It's LOADS of fun to examine the whole shebang of art out there today, including who has been influenced by whom and how we are all connected as artists and build, one upon the other, on and on through the generations, whether we are consciously aware of it or not. Social and Historical context shape not only the artistic expression, but its recognition/acceptance by the public at any point. Advice to self: be conscious of what you fill your head with... because that is what tends to emerge eventually in your own art.