Put it over there.

1355, El Mirage, CA

In the Art World, there’s no real way of telling what images people will buy. It’s not as simple as just liking an image. Often there is another reason, a theme, or memory of place perhaps. What I do know is that trying to make images you think people want rarely works (been there done that).

In a market flooded with cheap, over saturated, badly printed images on canvas, to sell an editioned fine art print can be a challenge. The other day I sat in a waiting room confronted by an image of a palm tree at sunset, on canvas, with colors resembling a candy store. It was perhaps one of the worst photographs I have ever seen of a palm tree at sunset, but someone liked it enough to buy it and hang it on a wall for all to see. Whether or not I would want one of my images in a waiting room, remains to be seen. But an image in a swanky hotel foyer, well that’s different (see above).