Money Jungle

Money and numeric value of artwork and effort is always going to be vaguely based on a series of coincidences and societal expectations, and not on any rational, one size fits all basis. And that's okay. The work has to find its own way in the "market" and the viewers and buyers that it ends up interacting with. The artist must help it grow up and find that place.

Public vs Private

Art ends up in many places. Art in a home seen by the same people day after day is going to be experienced in different ways than art in a museum seen less frequently. It's too bad museums are so hush-hush, where art may be discussed much more vitally when it's hanging in a dining room or living room.

The Trouble with Tribbles

Someday art becomes a million little kitties and puppies that need new homes. The value I put on my objects is my own sacrifice of time, but to avoid being overrun, I must find them new families to live with.

Layers create interest and draw the audience in.

Great discussion on how art can be good

http://www.paulgraham.com/goodart.html

Work feeds thought. The left hand feeds the right and we all feed each other, intellectually speaking.

Objects are very important to me. The specific histories and memories a thing can hold are important. Places and people hold some of the same threads of sense. Stories and meaning, and connecting the past to the present, as well as exploring the future, unknowable and untouchable. Once sense is gotten, is the object done? It will tell its story tomorrow. Or a new story.