Hello Nick,

You are not limiting creativity by categorizing. Not until the moment when you ask an artist to remove an image that the artist deems as appropriate for a certain category; when you do, it is then that you are engaging in disrupting a subjective decision process. This is a process that should be left solely up to the artist. That is the crux of the argument. Who gets to deem what is appropriate, and what is not? Why is a Poser figure less desirable than one of my pieces, when the Poser has sixty percent fractal in it and mine five percent? Not only is that unfair, it's illogical and goes against your very own rules.

I don't like Poser either, Nick. I think very few Poser users have a modicum of talent. I have seen a few, who truly do know how to use the program and they have blown me away. However, what we think does not matter. To disqualify their work because they have melded fractal and Poser is patently unfair, and is artistic tyranny.

Let people put their images where they deem appropriate. If there is no fractal in an image, by all means, remove it. But if someone uses a fractal in a different or interesting way, it should remain and should not be told it needs to be removed.

This rule is absurd, unfair, it cannot possibly be objective and the only people who benefit from it are a group of flat-earthers who believe any postwork on fractal is akin to satanic worship. Everyone else embraces all kinds of fractal art with open arms...whether it's good art, bad art, or has a Poser babe in it. Please don't enforce this rule. It's a bad one.

Mindy