Real Oceanic Art in Ohio - and they said it couldn't happen! - General Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Mon, Sep 22, 2008 10:02 PM Ouuh, Ben is hurt that we are dissing his Luau! Hey, I am GLAD to be corrected and find out that that Ohio PNG stuff is just as authentic as it looks! I was just making an assumption, saying "PROBABLY made for sale art", because it is a fact that most PNG art available on the free market nowadays is. The whole question of authenticity and the inflated prices and the looting of the PNG people's art by whities at the turn of the century makes the whole point too complex to discuss here anyway, and as I said I believe tourist art is of equal value if made with mana. The Luau will certainly benefit from your mana, Ben, but I also know what it started out as, and what it got paired down to since, and, most importantly, what it's namesake stood for.

Ouuh, Ben is hurt that we are dissing his Luau! Hey, I am GLAD to be corrected and find out that that Ohio PNG stuff is just as authentic as it looks! I was just making an assumption, saying "PROBABLY made for sale art", because it is a fact that most PNG art available on the free market nowadays is. The whole question of authenticity and the inflated prices and the looting of the PNG people's art by whities at the turn of the century makes the whole point too complex to discuss here anyway, and as I said I believe tourist art is of equal value if made with mana.

The Luau will certainly benefit from your mana, Ben, but I also know what it started out as, and what it got paired down to since, and, most importantly, what it's namesake stood for.

Post #409446 by bigbrotiki on Mon, Sep 22, 2008 10:02 PM