Rate, review and recommend
Some well meaning friends booked us into a hotel. It was in a great location. The furnishings were splendid - wild and new. I had nothing to complain about. That was until I opened the curtains. I was faced with a wall. No window. For some that would be of little concern, but it gave me cause to find somewhere else the next day. Hotel rooms, restaurants, things we buy, all have key ingredients. Bits that are vital to garner our overall approval. If one of those key ingredients is deficient then we find fault with other things too. Other issues that would normally be a minor niggle now become something we vocally disapprove of. We begin to find fault in every corner. If the basics are right, we are more content to put up with other problems. Each of us will have our priorities and recommend to others based upon what we personally feel is most important.
People will push for a better deal, not a fair deal, a better deal, irrespective and who they deprive in the process, irrespective of the long-term effects. We might fight hard for a discount, so hard that the merchant goes out of business. Then we complain that we no longer have the cosy corner café to commiserate in anymore. Our dissent, our stinginess, our petty complaints stack up. Our appraisals of things are based on our in-built preferences. Do we need to be so harsh if we accept that it is our tastes that dictate how we rate things. Dissent destroys. It destroys things for others – others with different tastes to you.
The art of art; attach a pretentious backstory to the items you present. The level of craftsmanship is not vital, though it can be appreciated by some. Novelty helps. However, no artwork contains much in the way of originality. It is usually a minor twist on another established concept, maybe a change in scale or a new combination.
I take assiduous care with taglines that accompany my works.
“The four dogs that personifies the throwing of light on what we can see when we pay attention to our surroundings.”
“We have a negative use of colours to highlight the negativity in the human condition relating to dissent.”
As a critic, one does well to use as few words as possible. Dismal, fun or amateurish would suit the work above nicely. Similarly, when describing some wine, we can use battery acid, delicate or tart. People forget 99% of what we say. They might remember one apt word, so make it a good one.