"Vertical Hold" by Sterling Hundley
Somewhere between the art you have not seen yet and the art you have stopped seeing because it has become too familiar...
Between the veteran artist running out of original ideas and the child who believes his every crayon line is unprecedented...
Between the artist who aggressively competes with all his peers and the artist who is oblivious to where he stands...
Between the professional who desperately depends on art to pay the mortgage and the amateur who resorts to art to fill an idle Sunday afternoon...
Between the expert who is hamstrung by too much knowledge of art's long history and the airy ignorance of the novice...
Between the artist who is shackled by the demands of unreasonable clients and the heedless freedom of an artist with no audience at all...
Between the investor who views art only in financial terms and the fan who is insensitive to the economics that make art possible...
Between the person who ignores art and the person who is so obsessed with art that it diminishes his experience of life...
........................................lies a sweet, sweet spot.
