Artist?

My wife is making some peculiar creations. She devotes herself to making them without showing them to anyone. It would be spooky to call them flowers even if though they are made of cloth and clay, like artificial flowers. These mysterious "plants" are invading our house day by day.

I know that she has reasons for her craft though. She is not very good with language, even her native Japanese language, and she is not very good at socializing. As she has a sensitive heart, she gets emotional scars from human interaction. "I am not normal, but I need to be like other people," she says, clearly suffering. "It's so nice, not seeing people!" she said after the stay-at-home restriction was put in place during the pandemic in 2020. She has been enjoying being a social recluse and immersing herself in her creations since then.

Creative work must be essential for her survival in this world. She heals herself from her past trauma that she cannot express in words by churning out her unusual flowers. I know she will continue quietly making them and keeping them hidden.

But allow me to share my perspective. She is making strange flowers all the time and never does any housework. I am busy with the housework because of her work, which doesn’t bring in any money. I wonder how long we have to keep on living like this?

Granted, she was selling a few accessories simulating artificial flowers before the pandemic. But she is no longer making those sweet things. Her current work is difficult to put into a popular category, such as fashion or interior decoration. If there were any suitable category, it would be art (or maybe even burnable garbage).

In addition, she has no art education. She has no interest in art and no particular message that she wants to deliver with her work. That is why I hesitate to call her flowers "art," but I'm not ready to call them "garbage" either. I'm introducing her work on Artifactsy to find an answer. Since you could say her work is a parody of flowers, this website is also a parody of a certain other website.

What do you think?

But is it Art?