This quote, penned by Tennessee Williams (1911–83)—whose innumerable successes included The Glass Menagerie , A Streetcar Named Desire , and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof , among others (he didn’t leave much room for anyone else, did he?)—summed things up perfectly:

The world is violent and mercurial—it will have its way with you. We are saved only by love—

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What’s copiously clear in the process is that we need to reassess art’s seemingly arbitrary pricing, while factoring in the unavoidably high costs of rent, staff, and fairs.

Firstly, by selling works that I’ve collected over the years (as well as art made by myself and, on occasion, my family) at no reserve, the highest bid—regardless of how low—takes the works. In doing so, I have managed to reach out to artists and others that would never have conceived of crossing the auction-house threshold, yet commit to buying—fo... See more

Here is what Layla wrote upon returning:

Good art makes you think or feel something. Great art has the capacity to make you do something. Your art in this instance was more than a sculpture or a painting, it was an unforgettable core memory, though for Zella it was the Kenny-toilet paper roll!

Living life guarded and overcomplicating things, after

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