Day: August 6, 2007

Art, Artist Books, Collage

Hmmm.

Shelly

The Terrible Hours: What Each Girl Should Bring
The Terrible Hours: What Each Girl Should Bring

A comment left at Flickr for the above image:

Very creative and well done, but for me a little too morbid making it uncomfortable to look at..

It seems like a pretty innocuous statement, but the more I think about it, the more I wonder, what’s the point? If taken at face value, it seems odd to me that someone would go out of their way to leave a comment that simply states that they prefer less “morbid” work. My response is, “That’s nice, dear, but what does it have to do with me?” In other words, I don’t really care what sort of art an anonymous passer-by prefers. M’kaythen!

Or is it meant to be constructive criticism? If so, good luck with that! I mean, really, telling someone that their work is too “morbid” is not exactly constructive, in that there is precious little chance that they will find it helpful, or that they will change their subject matter or style of work to accommodate your wishes.

And, I’m sorry, but “morbid”? I think that might be true of some of my pieces, but that particular collage is not one of them.

Ironically, the commenter in question has no photos in their Flickr photostream and no profile.