From my Art School days I rejected pompous or institutional distinctions between art, design and craft, also those between technician and practitioner...
Teaching either fine art or media arts I witnessed both ’student’ and ‘institutional’ divisions that engendered a frailty in the creative process which in turn gave rise to either a poor execution on the part of the ‘practitioner' or shallow thinking on the part of the 'technician'.
After the vertigo of Post-modernism I believe we must strive to maintain two fundamentals: craft expertise across a broad range of media and a lucid capacity for creating works that offer a duality of reading in the mind and heart of the viewer: both a universal reading and an idiosyncratic (co-authorship) connection.