I volunteered today to sit the desk at Springfield's Prairie Art Alliance at the Hoogland Center for the Arts. It's a very nice gallery with loads of artwork, everything from fine furniture to hand-crafted vases, from paper collage to watercolor.One customer came in and summed everything up with one word: cute.
"What a cute place!" she exclaimed. "Such cute stuff." She said it more than once. If I'd been counting, I'd probably given up after a dozen or so.
"Oh, that's so cute. Such cute space. There are so many cute things here to buy for a cute gift."
Moral: artists everywhere beware. All of your hard hours of creative labor and subtly precise execution of ideas will be judged somewhere by a lady with a bouffant hairdo as to whether it is cute or not.
That, and whether or not it matches the sofa in the living room.
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