Post #27419 by Ikit on Thu, Mar 20, 2003 10:39 AM

It seems like there are a large amount of Tiki artists out there. There are probably more artists now then at any one time during when the original creations were constructed. You can tell what area a lot of the “original” art comes from by its look, style and construction. With the Internet people have access to a lot of access to other people’s works. This is a good and a bad thing. You can have a guy in Greenland carving just like a guy in New Zealand. The guy in New Zealand can be basing work on traditional Hawaiian art.

It is sad that Tiki’s have lost their entire regional flavor but it is good that there still remains some great original Tiki art and artists out there.

As far as stealing goes I saw a thread below where a guy was stealing wood from a park to make Tiki’s with and everyone was supportive of him. If stealing is wrong stealing is always wrong. Be fair.

As an artist it sucks to get ripped off but when I see people talk about software and music they generally do not care if they are downloading MS Office or Pearl Jam’s latest CD from the Internet, often before the release to the public. People do not seem to care about that either.