Someone once told me about the concept of Universal Thought. The theory is that ideas are just floating around in space and if you’re open to them you can tap in and get some inspiration for yourself. In the early 1980s I had a greeting card business. I released a card one year that was the identical premise as one that was released by Paper Moon (theirs was way better and a pop up card to boot). My card was a colored pen and ink drawing of a cat jumping out of a tiered cake and surrounded by other cats in a typical birthday party scene and so was theirs but with way better artwork. Another example is when MGM made a Capote movie at the same time Warner Bros. did. WB held it back for a year before releasing it so as not to be confused with MGM’s version. Why do I care about this theory? Well, it has come up for me again and this is why. Recently I have returned to making metal cakes.(I made one 14 years ago) I'm semi retired and now have the time it takes . See below. Today my friend Grace sent me an article from News Artnet about artists creating art cakes at an astonishing rate and essentially how in vogue it is.
14 years between the two. See the video of the cake on the right.
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