Gallery-wrap canvas of Strandvägen, Stockholm

How many of us really take the time and the effort to apreciate the art we create? A lot of people today use the computer as the only medium of interaction with their images. Sure, those images get posted on Flickr, Twitter and Facebook, but an lcd leaves lots to be desired when viewing an image. A screen is dynamic, it can show a lot of information at once. That leaves the more ADD-prone among us juggling 17 browser tabs, 4 im clients, itunes and a torrent app all at once while viewing an image. This leaves the brain scurrying to grasp all this visual information and not really immersing itself in the image. An image is almost never just “pretty to look at”, there’s always a little detail that stands out, that invokes an emotion, that makes your mind wonder a certain way. It takes time to see these details.
All this is eliminated when you hang a picture on a wall. People (mostly) tend to treat physical images with more respect, the stand in front of them longer and take more time to let them soak in. Regardless of how good your art is, being proud enough of an image to commit it to canvas and hang it on a wall moves you further away from the negative connotations of what some call being a “Flickr photographer” and closer to becoming an artist.
Print your photos, try different ways of mounting them, give them away as presents to people or hang them on your own wall and enjoy them…