Sorry about the delay in getting back online here. I had a very busy few weeks, with my literature review, report on child perception, tutorial essay on eyewitnesses, and last but not least, a statistics exam. Horrible awful thing that it was. Anyway onto happier, things.

It looks like I'm in the clear as to the intellectual property infringement charge, no banning. So I'm happy and content this christmas. I would really hae hated to loose DeviantArt membership, as I've lurked here for many years previous to my research project. Yay, and thanks to eerybody who sent me a nice comment, or telling me to not take too much notice of the whole thing; you were correct.

I'm currenly reading a book called 'the gift' by Lewis Hyde, as it relates to how value and price is alloted to artworks. A good layman's text on the creative product's cultural value and commercial/ economic value duality in modern art world. He also deals with myth and fairy tales as a type of 'sychological commerce'. I had never thought of them in that way before, the moral or lesson of the story as possessing a mental and educational value, outside of entertainment.

The second book I'm reading is a very good psychology text, 'Human judgement: the eye of the beholder' by Donald Laming. Accessible for a psych book, with some really interesting experiments peppered throughout the theory, really loved the opening chapter where a classic art piece increases in value 2200 times (£170 to 380,000) in a few months, after being attributed to Sebastiano del Piombo, as a portrait of Pope Clement VII, who refused King Henry VIII an annulment to Catherine of Aragon. The lesson: context is worth a few hundred thousand sterling. I love the art market, it makes me smile.

II'm in the process of ordering the images at the moment, trying to get a good spread across media and tiem frames. Tedious and hand cramping task that's turning into Starting the introduction section of the thesis. Enjoying the reading for it, as I have no classes at the moment, so no interruptions. Delightful.

Have a merry christmas and a happy new year!

ps. if you notice a typo involving the letter 'V', sorry, but my keyboard's v key is sticking.