Supposedly my work is being shown in a gallery opening tonight. It’s part of a Print Folio project that I participated in a year ago. It seems strange that someone may be looking at it tonight and wondering what the hell it is about, probably wondering why it’s poorly registered. Soon the opportunities to exhibit and make work will dry up completely and every trace of what I made will disappear into the ether.
It’s time to cut my losses and try something new.
Interestingly I got crisply berated by the gallery owner for pricing my print at $10. They didn’t enjoy the jest, it ‘undervalued’ everyone’s work. Now it’s going for $420. It seems foolish as they could have made certain $4 rather than none. Considering I’m an unknown, with dubious credentials to be in a commercial space and no history of sales, my work therefore exists in the nebulous abyss of subjectivity, devoid of the validity that is a quantifiable exchange value. If it then lies in the realm of personal ‘likes and dislikes’, thus, in the absence of any absolute value, wouldn’t then the creator’s valuation of the work be the best approximation of its dollar value?
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