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Message: <blockquote data-quote="solitaryVSong" data-source="post: 1799267" data-attributes="member: 77930">Not quite the same but many years ago, when I was strictly an abstract painter, I went to opening night at a juried show at University of Rochester in New York. I and a friend of mine both had work in the show. It was my first professional opening.So I was pretty excited. Then I stepped into the museum and saw one of my paintings off in the distance - hung upside down! I immediately went to a museum official and told them of the problem but they said that they couldn't do anything until after the opening. So all night long I watched the few people who were interested in it walk up and stare at it intently, I guess trying to get some meaning from it. I wanted to rush up and say: "It's upside down! It's upside down! Don't waste your time." Instead I sat there in agony. It did teach me to plaster the back of any future work with up and down arrows.Like the two of you I've found that I actually tend to enjoy the critical comments. For some reason they just seem pleasantly funny and it's hard to take offense at them. What's more dispiriting is seeing the majority of people walk by nonchalantly as though there's not even anything to look at.Not all comments are bad though. I'm not too knowledgeable abut geese. Last year I was doing a quick watercolor field sketch of what I thought was a graylag. I told that to someone who inquired about the watercolor and he told me he thought it was a Chinese goose. He was right.<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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