Making is cheap now. Attention isn't. The scarcity moved from the studio to t...

For most of human history, making something was hard. Carving stone, mixing pigment, learning grammar, finding rhyme. The labor was the gate. If you had spent forty years perfecting a craft, your work carried a weight that came simply from the cost of producing it. That gate is gone now. Not partially. Gone. I can ask a model to write a sonnet about your grandmother and have it before the kettle boils. I can render a city that does not exist, in the style of a painter who never lived, in a language that is mine only on Tuesdays.