Categorizing our Works

Years ago, I thought about what people make. Then I categorized people's works. As you look below at my categories, where do your works fit to? Also, some categories can combine with others. Did I leave an area out?

We create to ease our existence,
such as the flush toilet, automobile, airplane, shelters/houses, furniture, sports and games—card games, board games to computer games—etc.

We create for destruction/defense,
the sword to the atomic bomb/defensive structures like The Great Wall of China and Fort Boutange (a star fort, Groningen, Netherlands).

We create the sensual,
love poetry like the Song of Solomon (or Song of Songs, ca 900 BC), dances like the Argentinean Tango (ca mid-1800s) or Dance of the Seven Veils (pre 2250 BC), to the pornographic.

We create for decoration,
Japanese flower arranging, landscaping, tattoos, interior design, architectural ornaments, wall paper, to decorative tole painting and stamping.

We create to inform/persuade,
advertising to propaganda: Nike’s (a shoe company) advertising stating to “Just Do It!” (campaign active 1988-2003, 2008, 2016, 2018); works by Plato, Moliere, Jonathan Swift, Karl Marx, etc.

We create for worship,
idols like “Venus of Willendorf” and The Buddha; temples, such as the Parthanon, Hagia Sophia, Angkor Wat, and Chartes Cathedral; music such as Bach’s hymns; dances like the “Dance of Shiva,” and votive objects, prayer rugs, pilgrimages.

We create for prominence,
commemorative works, such as Arch of Titus and Trajan’s Column; works of grandeur, as the palace of Versailles and The Forbidden City; official and private portraits or look at names on museums or some other cultural institution, for instance Getty, Carnegie, or Guggenheim.

We create to remember,
celebrations of remembrance, for a birthday and an anniversary; objects like scrapbooks, photographs, a death mask; the Taj Mahal or Greater Jelling Runic Stones; and to a nation like The Statue of Liberty; national anthems, like La Marseillaise; patriotic works, as the song, God Bless America; memorials of war-for tragedy/victory, as the US Vietnam War Memorial and Napolean’s Arc de Triomphe, including other memorials and museums around the world; as well as national and communal festivals, not forgetting the written histories from every civilization.

We create to celebrate,
festivals, such as Carnival/Mardi Gras, often the dancing of youth, Polka music and dancing.

We create for beauty,
Plotinus wrote (204-269 A.D., from The Enneads), “This, then, is how the material thing becomes beautiful—by communicating in the thought that flows from the Divine.”