Post #324413 by TikiCutie on Thu, Aug 9, 2007 9:24 AM

HI TeaKey,

"If I bought the painting for the look of the mugs, is that the wrong reason to buy it? And is this painting an anti-mug collectors painting? "

What an insightful question!

There is no right or wrong reason to buy art. Buy it because it pleases you, and no other reason.

I was hoping that mug lovers would like the representation of the mugs, basically...and in buying the painting and displaying it as a love for their mugs (or ones they cannot get), also be embracing the idea that the passion of collecting is a burning desire.

I can see how you might consider it an "anti-mug collector's painting", but I can't see many anti-mug collectors buying a painting about rare mugs if they don't really care about mugs that much.

This is also a painting for Tikiroom fanatacists (myself being an admitted one. Hello, my name is Tikicutie, and I worship Walt Disney's Enchanted Tikiroom. Hello, Tikicutie). The god in the painting is really just saying that the Tikiroom gods are more powerful than the desire to collect mugs, and that really worship should be focused on tiki gods.

But somebody who buys this painting really shouldn't be buying it for the underlying theme, I would hope they would be buying it because it has cool mugs in it, is fun to look at, and is an entertaining representation of a couple of the true hearts of tiki culture.

Not many tiki paintings come with a message. This one just happens to be a light herated poke at something like mug collecting, and I would hope that the serious mug collectors are the first ones to get the joke and embrace it.

And hopefully buy some art!

Tikicutie