My brother Jon has put a piece of his art up on eBay. I’m curious as to how The Seeds of Flame will fair.
I sold a really unique piece of furniture on eBay once, and it really didn’t generate much bidding, despite it having appeared on Boing Boing!
I wonder if the art world needs to first have generated a buzz about an artist, and once that has emerged then the artist is free to use various channels – including eBay – to surface the material for purchase.
Or, maybe there is a sufficient amount of intuitive folks with money who purchase new artworks on a good hunch. Much stranger things have happened.