yeah the weather this weekend was great (except for the rain Saturday night). I got some good late afternoon biking in yesterday... if I was a painter i'd have been inspired to paint the sunset, but I was too busy sweating my way along the western side of Tolo Harbor anyway to break out a canvas and brush. :-P

blogging is in and of itself self-indulgent too, just like painting or any other art form. Who thinks anyone else wants to read anything you or I are writing? at the bottom of it, its a plea for attention or self-affirmation (which is why etchy loves getting comments!)

Art can only be judged in retrospect. From my experience, it can take up to 25 years to understand the merits (and even what is interesting or important) about a work of art. It is only in retrospect, when there is a panorama and some chronological sense of what came before and after any given work of art that we can make much sense out of it. As an artist, what there is for you to do is create art that comes from the most integral part of you (well, unless you want to be an "art star" with the half-life of a pop star). The critics, quite literally, do not know what they are talking about. The best they can do is try and point out what might be significant and/or important about the current art scene. Time will do the rest. Controversy is good, it means you have struck a chord. The worst would be for no one to have a reaction to what you've done. The issues that people focus on that are raised about your exhibition are, of course, their issues.

Haters are actually Lovers