So I've failed to get anywhere in an art competition and my conspiracy light is on. The way it all went with this online thing had the whiff of fix about it.
And I've got the entry form for another competition on a table somewhere but I know in my gut that it's going to be another stitch up.
I'm imagining that the establishment galleries know that mugs like me hold out that somehow we have a chance of getting recognised and they spot the chance to milk our hopes. So in my distorted world view I see them getting us to stick in our tenner to enter when all these competitions are for is to rake in the fees from my kind and to bolster the status of their favoured/ connected/ mates whose work they sell and take commission on.
But of course this is nothing like the truth is it?
And I've got the entry form for another competition on a table somewhere but I know in my gut that it's going to be another stitch up.
I'm imagining that the establishment galleries know that mugs like me hold out that somehow we have a chance of getting recognised and they spot the chance to milk our hopes. So in my distorted world view I see them getting us to stick in our tenner to enter when all these competitions are for is to rake in the fees from my kind and to bolster the status of their favoured/ connected/ mates whose work they sell and take commission on.
But of course this is nothing like the truth is it?