Joelglaine
I admire your publically spirited attitude and your contribution to the critic group. I cant say I followed all of your arguments, maybe its my English (not my native language). (Like the subject of 'people start into the WHY of anyone--that's too much' or 'if you don't want to trouble yourself with them' ).
However, I would like to thank you for describing my images as 'extreme bizzar &surreal' - it is what I'm aiming for. (Definitely no sarcasm here).I'm puzzled though, if it does touch you, how come you havnt said it even once as a comment? would have touched me.  It is exactly the type of comments I love most, but I always specify that I appreciate any type of comments, technical, artistic, philosophical, etc. And I try to contribute what I can in these aspects when I comment.

Perhaps the purpose of my earlier post wasnt made clear enough:
I have no wish to dismiss or judge any use of the critic group by others. I understand that many wish to get  specific technical support and/or  benifit from a lengthly dialogue (can you say multilogue?). 
All I wanted to say is  it is not my way, and it doesnt help me. And I wanted to find out if there is hope that what I like most in a critique will have a place in the group's 'new way'. (and perhaps there are some silent current and past members who would like the same sort of feedback).

"I paint that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive. I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence."
Man Ray, modernist painter
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