[OM] Re: Looking back and forward

[Chuck Norcutt]

Perhaps the problem is that you expect the customers to appreciate your 
"art" when all they're looking for is a pleasing picture to fit a 
particular setting.  Once you understand why *they* don't consider it 
lame you'll be all set to make it big time by producing a lot of images 
that have similar characteristics.

My wife has long wanted a large print or painting to go in the dining 
room.  I've offered to do a photograph on canvas for her if she could 
define what she wants to see.  But she can't.  Every time we go to some 
place that has prints and paintings she always looks for that elusive 
image.  When she finds it she'll know what it looks like but not before. 
  As long as it meets whatever elusive criteria are in her head it won't 
matter whether any one else might judge it "art" or not.

Chuck Norcutt


AG Schnozz wrote:

> And it really grouses me to no end when a personal favorite
> hangs in the gallery for years without budging, but what I
> consider to be a "pedestrian" photo sells the day after getting
> hung.  I think my biggest seller (quantity) in the past two
> years is a rather lame picture of a wagon in front of a barn
> buried in weeds.

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