Digital art

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I recently had a long drawn out argument with my mother over the benefits of digital art compared with traditional art forms. Of course, she was all for handmade art that was tactile and could be created on a huge scale, and often in three dimensions. Her paintings tend to be at least one square meter in size and consist of chunky, impasto layers built up onto the canvas.
My arguments in favor of digital art didn't exactly hold when the benefits of my mother's approach to art were taken into consideration. But I love being able to create weird and wonderful collages from existing photos, that can be rearranged in ways that go way beyond the confines of what the human hand alone can manage to create...and no clean up, no being driven over the edge by smelly turps or poisonous paints seeping into the skin, nor the wasting of precious materials when something goes wrong.
Maybe the ultimate way around the traditional media versus computer-generated debate, would be to somehow integrate both the digitally created and hand-produced in one creation, maybe toying around with ideas first on the computer before recreating certain parts of it in another traditional art media form that can utilize three dimensions and occupy real space, rather than being limited to a flat, two-dimensional printout.