I know that someone paid $50,000 for a urinal that they could have bought at a hardware store for $50. They paid that much because the urinal was on display at an art gallery and was told that it was art. Paying for a subscription does not guarantee good art. It just means that poor people are excluded from participation. I doubt if that will create good art. The fact is that we have a range of people here. Some are novices, and some are professionals, and some are talented amateurs, and they are all sharing space in the galleries, and, if we get lucky, the novices learn from the more experienced people. I don't think Renderosity is meant to be a sanctum of art elitists...it is meant, isn't it, to be a place to learn and share. No, I don't have a gallery. I took mine down when I realized I had no talent. But I defend the right of the novices who are still working on their skills to participate as fully as those with more developed talents. Should I be excluded because I have no gallery? Or should I pay in order to be an audience? I know what your answer would be. Art is practice, practice, practice. This is a place where people come to practice. And I have seen people grow over time and the person you think is ill suited to be here to day may turn out to be the 3d equivalent of da Vinci in another few months. We'll never know unless we give them a chance. We can help people learn and grow. Or we can shut them down because they aren't perfect the first time. Which is healthier for the community? I'm probably wrong. I'm not an artist, and I don't pretend to be an art critic. But the day this community is closed to all but the art elite is the day I stop supporting it. Which is no great loss, I know. Except to me.