While I am wholly indebted to your hours of procrastination, tirelessly browsing the net for gripping artwork, I cannot help but be utterly frustrated and annoyed by your pervasive lack of attribution. Whenever I find an image I like, I always want to be able to put it in the context of a larger body of work, to see how it fits into a larger artistic vision (for lack of less snobby phrase). But your methodology/format seems to be working against me as you amass pages upon pages of linked images, such that to try to find the origin of any piece of work sends one down the rabbit hole, so to speak, sorting through blog after blog in a desperate attempt to finally hit bottom. The present image is just such a case. In searching for the creator of this work, the only "bottom" I found - and a largely inconclusive bottom at that - was a Slavic-language website attributed, I think, to one Fenriz Volkov. Whether he is the creator of this image or merely the first blogger to post it, I have no idea! I don't want to get too deep into any theorizing about why I think it's important to attribute a work to the person who created it (but may I mention in passing: 'gratitude,' 'encouragement,' 'dialogue'). But please, for the sake of those of us who would like to find out more, those of us who would like to stroll through a body of work rather than stumble through utter chaos (spare me your artsy disavowals of order), please start linking your images to a legitimate source. (And yes, I do realize this letter is yelling into the wind, but it need be said all the same.) Let's try to be more than consumers here, indiscriminately stuffing our faces with a barrage of visual stimuli. Let's try to actually savor some of these flavors, talk about them, and, for the love of God, at least thank the cook! That's all I'm saying.
In contentious comradery,
me.
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