Craft fair artisans keep AI at bay with quality, hand-produced products

All of this action behind me is the craft council of Newfoundland and Labrador's annual Christmas craft fair, where quality is the name of the game. This craft fair has been around since 1972. It is a jury craft fair so we have a committee that reviews all of our members for a high quality of craftsmanship, skill and design and so they have to go through that process before they're qualified to participate in this event. The handcrafted artwork is something that's always going to stand up against anything that comes up. competitively from AI and has a piece that our customers really value. They want to see that craftsmanship behind the work and it's an important piece of what we have here today and what we're celebrating here. Each piece takes about two weeks start to finish. They all start with like a ball of mud so I like to joke because they're like playing in the mud all day. And so, I mean, with creating and finishing and drying time and glazing and two kiln fires, it's two weeks start to finish for each piece. Oh, there's no replacements. There's no replacements for things that are handcrafted. This market is chock-a-block full of vendors who put so much time and effort and skill into their product. And you can see it because everything here is so high quality. So there's no AI that can do what two hands can do. There just isn't. You can't compare it, and you can't even feel of it. It just feels good. It looks good. There's no AI that gives you that kind of joy. I have an amazing lineup of seal skin products we are selling out in product and which is like it's exciting it's yeah. Definitely the beauty of this fair is seeing the true handcrafted artistry that has gone into each and every single piece. There's been time thought process and just oh it's just amazing to see especially when the as we say that AI artistry has just Transfects everywhere. You can't go anywhere without seeing it. You can't interact with any organization, business. Yeah, so it's just so amazing to see so much talent in one room and to know that we have a fighting chance against that AI.