"And what work is it they want highlighted anyway...their art or their product?" Well, when your product is your artform, there really is no difference. For me, figure creation IS an art. For many of us we are selling our ART in order to create in income that allows us to creat more ART. For a working artist, and all of the merchants here are exactly that, the act of selling your art is tantamount to your success and, IMO, cannot be seperated from the state of being an artist. That is my fundamental problem with the Product Showcase and this whole debate: my figures are, to me, my art. They are also my product. By delineating between the two you inadverntently will prioritize for the artist/merchant whether they like it or not. That is why I post my artwork here so rarely: for the most part those of use selling our art in it's many forms have already been relegated to the status of "product pushers" and are often time dismissed when the topic of art comes around. -Les