Personally I think everyone that does post should for the sake of the exercise create an image or two without post, and those who dont do post work should, for the sake of the exercise do their image with post... it is the learning exercise that is part of the process of art. the point is to create...to experiment and to share our artwork...if you say I tried to do this with no post or I tried to do post work on my image which I prefer to do without post, is that not an artist's statement, isn't that all you need? Art is in the doing, the final result and what other people think of it, well that is icing on the cake,....it is the act of creating...the technique and the fact that we can transform those grumpy pixels or cranky mesh objects into an image that satisfies our inner vision... ...artistic styles come about because the artists create, an artist does not wake up one day and say I wish to create the style of minimalism....the artist says I wish to do something different, something that I envisioned...I want to apply the tools in a different way......because other people then look and say hey...I likes that...what do you call that....we get around to a style...the artist is consumed by the vision and the process of creating...... We have many artists who share their artwork, I love to look at all the work... I am often inspired by the unique vision of one artist or the other, but I am grateful for this place in cyberspace where we can all share...