Why is it the holidays all come bunching up together? Isn’t someone smart enough to pick parts of the month or year lacking holidays, and fill in the gaps?
But I’m as much a slave to it as any other nature & wildlife, critical-thinking, 80s music blogger, and so we take the time to recognize that it’s Question The Value Of One’s Own Judgment Day, not to be confused with Question The Value of Judgment Day Day, which is an enormously brief holiday since there is absolutely none at all – it’s unfortunate that far too few people ever celebrate that one, or indeed, question a lot of things that they really should. We have plenty of posts on those topics, however.
Meanwhile, I have chosen to celebrate this one by trying to determine which three images of mine are going to be entered in a local contest next month, which fits the bill marvelously. I mean, I know what I like, but how far afield are my own tastes? Am I properly considering the fartistic aspects of those in the lineup? Are the judges leaning more towards ‘classical’ compositional traits, or more viscerally ‘pleasing,’ or what, really? Actually, I recall that it’s a ‘People’s Choice’ situation so I can probably forget about trying to hew to particularly recognized art styles, but then I can stew over what sorts of people will be doing the voting instead. Classic art prints (boats on the water at sunset)? Bold color accents? Cute animals (I’m kind of limited on those, unless we can count lizards as cute)? Abstracts? Slug sex? All right, I’m comfortable with ruling out that last one…
And then, the prints will also be for sale during the exhibition, so there’s the matter of pricing. This is ever-so-slightly a tourist town, but it’s off-season, so chances are we’re only talking local buyers.
Does everyone who exhibits their work go through these kinds of questions? I imagine it’s fairly common, but I’d like to meet the ones who have their answers pretty quickly and confidently. Meanwhile, just writing this is telling me I’m likely overthinking it; just pick a few representative pieces and be done with it – there will be other opportunities, and maybe this one will provide some guidance. I plan to be at the reception, so I can perhaps gain a little feedback there.
Shit – now I gotta figure out what to wear…