“Don’t use a computer. The computer cannot make art or craft, it can’t do it . . .” He goes on to say that a world run by technology is what Ruskin and William Morris feared, and that we may be on the verge of such a takeover even now. The interviewer asks him, “What is it you feel we’ll lose?” Garry holds up two prodigious, calloused and crooked hands, crowned by nine and a half fingers, and says simply, “These.”
Craftsman Garry Knox Bennett warns that using computers to make art risks losing our hands, or perhaps our own handmaking talents.
