Okay, so I take a painting into a gallery that is friendly to me. The owner/artist calls me "sweetie", "honey"; she judges what she likes in the blink of an eye: "I like this", "I don't like that", "I find this disturbing", etc, and depending on her light-speed assessment of a piece that I might have taken years to even have the guts to bring out into view, I am seen or not seen by a few people who stumble my way.
This is the reality of art. People judge in the blink of an eye what they like. They see it. They like it. They move on. They forget it. And so on the process goes. Sometimes they might even buy something.
Gallery owners are so immersed in art that nothing really moves them. The test of acceptability is simply the phrase, "I like it".
I believe this is why a movement such as "Stuckism" happens. People not only get bored with objects of a process, but they get bored with the process itself. They get bored with life. It's all a sign of . . . information overload.
Too much being done by too many people, seen too often, too quickly (due to communication technology and speed).
SLOOOOOOOOOOW dial-up maybe isn't such a bad idea, after all.
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