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I love figs so much, that I named my business after the tree. Ficus Carica is the edible species of common fig, thus Ficus Ceramica... I love them so much that a big botanical illustration of a fig branch is my only tattoo. I have a mental map of every fig tree in every neighborhood I've ever lived in. Why do I love them so much? Where do I start!? First, I just love picking them... In New Orleans, figs are ripening on the trees at the end of June, into the beginning of J

Is it art? Is it craft? Is it just a product? Who decides? Is the idea or the thing more important? These questions are so often raised now that they've become passé and boring to ask, but early in the 20th century, no one had truly and publicly asked. With the anonymous submission of Fountain to the hoity toity New York Society of American Artists in 1917, a profound debate was sparked: How could this possibly be art?? It was not made by an artists hand - it was an in