Post #9753 by the75stingray on Wed, Oct 2, 2002 7:21 PM

I agree totally with Tikijaksin...for once.
I mean, creativity and originality of style should not be oppressed in order to create a "traditional" style carving. As artists keep evolving, and the popularity of tikis (maybe) returns, styles have to evolve with them. People will not continue to buy the same ole thing. (Hopefully, we already have it!)
We want old/vintage, we want new, we want different, we want original.

I feel that I'm just lucky to find a damn Orchids mug in a thrift store or see a guy carving tikis in his back yard.

While at the James Dean Run in Indiana, I bought a really neat bobble head made by Bopp'n Heads. His name is "Riky Tiky Tiki". Now, he IS cartoonish and rather untraditional, but as a tiki-lover, I could just not pass him up! I had never seen one before - and its so much nicer than some other bobble heads I've seen.

Plus, to be perfectly honest, I buy whatever the hell I feel like and whatever I can afford. I have a great deal of "vintage" and traditional stuff, but I do not limit my collecting to that, because I hope to grow older and be able to see my 'newer' pieces become vintage themselves. (And by vintage, I don't mean by Ebay terms, which is, what? 6 months old?)

Newer or non-traditional pieces can not depreciate the value of a collection to a die-hard collector. I love it all!
And I hope more talented people start making newer and different things that I have never seen before. It's always nice to say, "Wow! That is really neat - I wish I had thought of that!"

So Tikijaksin, I say "ditto". It is about having fun. It is about creating or collecting diverse items so all of our collections don't look alike. (What a sad, sad world that would be if we ALL had AlnShelys collection!) :wink:
And I am thankful that there are artists out there who DO different stuff.

-C.
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