Scrap Book 14

 This is a guitar string that I actually found in the trash can in my dorm room.  It caught my attention, because, as a guitar player, I have a tough time not considering the strings of a guitar to be works of art.  However, according to the definition of art that I have been espousing through these entries, a guitar string is not in fact a work of art.  I may in fact be wrong, because I have never met anyone who makes guitar strings, and am ignorant to the process of how they are actually made.  But it seems to me that guitar string are analogous with paint brushes, in regards to music and painting, respectively.  Is a paint brush a work of art? Or is it the instrument that allows one to more effectively create those works of art?  This is difficult territory, when it comes to craftsmanship and the making of tools and such things.  I think many of these said craftsmen would quite understandably argue that the tools they make are in fact works of art.  And I believe I would agree with them that the tools they make are tangible manifestations of a creative force working uniquely through each individual.  However, the tools themselves do not take you away, they do not inherently inspire.  They are the means by which one can execute an inspiration, and paint a song that can take you away.