Sometimes the creative process is really a lot more spontaneous than it sounds, which surprises me. I engage in a small study and after a few weekends find out how rewarding the medium is, once it ‘talks’ to me and I to it. With jewelry, recently, I had maybe 3-5 months of examining linked chains, let it rest due to tedium, then a year or more later decided to do solid twisted wire forms. Oh and “reclaimed” silver wire is just my fancy word for scrap wire. It’s inexpensive and great for practice.

It is undeniable that much of this world’s commerce would not be as effective without digital photography to showcase a product. In addition, art may lie undiscovered for decades without a good, convincing visual brought to you through a digital photo. Illustrators and lineartists of the past did advertise products in catalogues and adverts through hand-drawn pictures, but the range of colors and detail level may have been extremely limited. The crisp truth and sense of reality from a well-taken photo can really allow an object to be viewed, potentially over great leagues and miles, allowing one to experience what they normally might only be able to see in person. I would be really interested to check out buyer statistics before and after such a time that photos were widely used and accepted by the masses to reference a product being sold, with relevance of course to buyer income/disposable income, general state of the economy, verity of survey results amongst a variety of populations, etc.