Post #628149 by swizzle on Fri, Mar 9, 2012 2:50 AM

On 2012-03-08 13:05, KokoKele wrote:

I just want to make it clear that I would never think of applying the "Utter Crap" label, which is strictly personal, to people creating works on this site and displaying them. I save that term for other, more crassly commercial and over-produced pieces of junk.

Really? That comment makes no sense at all to me. Either you are just playing it safe or you are a liar. Are you saying that you like absolutely EVERY piece of work by EVERY artist on this site? I don't. I find some of it, to be "Utter Crap". Are you saying that some of the more crassly commercial and over-produced pieces of junk don't appeal to you? I'm not. Occasionally i see a piece that 'I' think is cool. Which is 'strictly personal'. According to Sven's definition it has to have some minimum percentage of relation to the Polynesian/Oceanic arts and to midcentury American Tiki art. A lot of it to me is just that artists own personal expression of what 'Tiki" means to them. The percentage of that relation is purely subjective. Just because one, or some people, say it must be a certain way, doesn't make it so. This is not law. This is an individuals take on something that is completely made-up with to begin with.

Some/most/all might say that about my work. I really don't care. I KNOW that there are people out there that do like my work. My work might not have any relation to the Polynesian/Oceanic arts and to midcentury American Tiki art, according to some, yet there are people out there who can see enough of an influence in it to include it in 'their' definition of 'Tiki art'. That is enough for me. As it is enough for me to see artists on this site who 'I' think have created work that really is 'art', and how small the percentage of relation to the Polynesian/Oceanic arts and to midcentury American Tiki it really is, is irrelevant to me.

I like, what i like. And whether or not my 'opinion' fits in with someone elses idea means nothing to me.