Yes!! 100% behind this! Art for Arts sake! Are we seriously to believe that its in the best interests of the caking industry to only make safe cakes, that can be easily replicated?? Where’s the innovation? The creativity?? And some classes NEED to be based around styro, for cost as well as time, or are we limiting classes now only to those that can pay large sums of money they earned from being “real” cake decorators?? The more I have thought about this, the crankier I have gotten. I KNOW how hard I have worked for the things I have achieved, and for someone to tell me that I don’t “qualify” would be laughable if it wasn’t so damn insulting. I create art, I don’t sit idly back and judge the work of others, I roll up my sleeves and put my work out there to be judged, but never in a million years did I think that one of those judgements would be whether or not I used a dummy tier! I am thoroughly disgusted with this whole thing, and I’m very proud to say that the hashtag #makeartnotwar is going swimmingly on my page, proving that not everybody is as judgemental as the author of that article, and THOSE are the people I want seeing my Art.
