Evolution of your art has nothing to do with positive/negs votes of an individual or a group..... 'I paint "Lonliness" and someone sees "Happiness".' Emotions are subjective, each person feels them differently, you've heard, 'one man's trash is another man's treasure' well, same goes for emotion. The fact is you can't dictate how a viewer will interpret your art, they are subject to how they 'feel' when they look at it, and the key word there is 'interpret', you interpret what you see or feel, and put that into your art, the viewer interprets what they see, based on what the artwork does for 'them'... one day it's one thing and another day it could be something else... 'And if asked to tell a story with a picture and by looking, one doesn't get the story being told, who do you hold accountable? The transmitter or the receiver?' That's what I mean about the interaction of artist, artwork and viewer, the story is subjective... Example; you do a an extraordinary landscape with a huge gnarled tree as focal point, and several people look at it, to some it's just a pretty picture, to another it's a symbol of loss, aloneness, isolation, to another it's paradise, a sheltering place, a place for respite, to another it's a symbol of fear, the unknown, things that go bump in the night, so which one of these people is wrong, which has misinterpreted your vision?

Bryce Forum Coordinator....

Vision is the Art of seeing things invisible...