A Challenge: let's have some fun!
Editor's note: I've moved this thread into the mini-salon discussion from
its original place, since it was the impetus for the topic.
How about
this?
Each interested party to submit photos of 2 "rugs" (or bags, etc.)
they own. One rug to be one whose appreciation has grown with time, and which in
their opinion is "Collectible". The other rug to be one which, while it was
collected with enthusiasm, is no longer considered by the owner to be
"Collectible".
I think the exercize would be most instructive if the two
rugs chosen were somehow similiar. Participants could choose whether to include
any commentary with their submission.
If it suits Steve, perhaps he could
collect the submissions over the next couple of weeks and present them en bloc.
I would ask Steve to choose his 2 rugs for submission before he looks at anybody
else's.
The names of the submitters would not necessarily have to be
included in this exhibit. In fact, my preference would be to post the
images/comments without inclusion of this information.
Henry
Hi Henry
I think this is a fine idea, and that it will be fun to do
and instructive as well.
The suggestion that we do it right away isn't
going to work out, though. Because of Filiberto's and my travel schedules, we
are going to set the site to read-only from July 20 to August 19. There will be
nobody available on a regular basis to moderate messages submitted for posting
or to handle the image files that usually need to be edited for size and
uploaded to our server for inclusion.
However, I will be happy to
implement your proposal on or around August 19. I haven't had much time to think
about it yet, but I think it would work best as a mini-salon (that is, with many
threads of discussion rather than just one). I agree that permitting
contributors of pieces to be anonymous if they prefer to be is probably useful
for this exercise, but I think messages in the discussion should be subject to
our usual restrictions. I'll be happy to open the thing with one or more pairs
of pieces that I own. The members of each pair will be related, and I will
select pieces such that I think one of each pair is of much more collector
interest than the other, along with my rationale for thinking so.
Regards
Steve Price