Dear Judith
If a certain commercial gallery
hadn't given me a chance, knowing that the work
most likely was not saleable, I
wouldn't be where I am now. The gallery took a
chance and gave me an opportunity
to express myself with an unsaleable medium,
but luckily there are those people
who do understand that only time reveals what
contemporary art is and that contemporary
art acts as a historian. I also have come
to the conclusion that there is
a market that wants the traditional safe sort of art
and that is OK. Sometimes you feel
that you compromise yourself but the reality
is that we all need to survive
so you make work that is still dealing with your
theoretical issues but is a little
more saleable. This allows you to continue on with
your rigorous inquiry using not
so acceptable mediums or ideas. We need all those
people who appreciate art, however
it is applied. I also want to say that it is
refreshing the way you respond
to artwork without dragging out all the dead,
no disrespect to my forbears in
art. I love your truth, keep doing it.
Julie
A response to the comment In Defence of
'Cows in Fields'