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This
e-mail was in
response to an 11/28/2005 query I made to Hana
Coast Gallery, on Maui for
consideration of my artwork, which read, in part, "I
turn to you
with a dual purpose. Naturally, I'd like you to consider my work
for your galleries. Perhaps more important, though, is I could
sure use some counsel on positioning the work. I keep getting the
message 'this' kind of art is a tough sell on Maui.
If so, then where would be the best market?"
I'm not certain how you ended up at the email contact for our "sister" galleries in California, but in any case it was just forwarded to me here at the Hana Coast Gallery.
As you suggested, I spent not merely "a few moments" but quite a bit of time clicking my way through your web site. It's damned good work, but not at all our cupp'a tea.
I've no doubt that you keep hearing that refrain from art dealers. It is the kind of art that is virtually impossible to "sell", except for venues that specialize in "spiritual-oriented art" (what ever THAT is).
Some of us deal in
"cultural" art, but most are trying to sell stuff that is primarily
"decorative" in nature. Your art doesn't fit in with either of those
areas very comfortably, much to your credit.
Your work is deeply primal and aboriginal and, as you so beautifully
stated, highly metaphorical. In other words, it does indeed require the
viewer to ascend to "different" levels, where what they are
seeing can coalesce with what is already stored away in their conscious
and unconscious memory.
What each viewer sees is
a VERY personal artistic
interpretation of the reality you are presenting . . . and therein lies
the rub.
Hand-in-glove with being a fine photographic artist you are also a
gifted writer. My feeling when I'd finished journeying through your web
pages was that your work will ultimately find its audience by means of
the Internet, rather than in commercial galleries.
I say that simply
because your work demands to be appreciated within the context of
language that can flesh-out the metaphors you are using. Oh sure, I
realize that the medium is the message. And the images will indeed
"speak" to the
viewer.
But you aren't creating
pretty little landscapes whose colors blend well with the drapes. You
have developed a brand new kind of art, one that is reflective of the
healing work that you've been called upon to do.