On Jun 4, 2004, at 7:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jacquie) wrote:
[...] this also means that her piece will now not even have the chance of
winning the Visitor's Award, judged by the public. And of course, this applies
to you all who were unlucky enough to not have your lace on show. In the
recent past, the Visitor's prize was won by Caroline Biggins' Honiton Dolphin which
won no other prize, so it does matter.
I think, in the long run, that's what matters *the most*; even more than who decided that piece A was more worthy of showing than piece B... Unfortunatley, there's no re-dress to that problem; no amount of being shown in later exhibitions -- placed elsewhere -- will correct it.
Sometimes, the judges and the public "see" a piece the same way: last year in Hasbrouck Heights, Janice Blair's "Swan Mask" won the first prize in *both*: the judges' and the public's opinion (and my "With This Ring/Lovebirds" won the second; again, from both). But that's not common; quite often, the "public opinion" varies from that of the judges', if only because the public uses different criteria than the judges do. I'm a lacemaker myself but, when I look at a piece as a judge, I look for *faults*. When I look at it without a judge's burden, as a member of public (the public?), it's the *overall effect* that is of primary importance, with technique ranking less...
*Big* lace exhibitions are likely to draw in more non-lacemaker viewers than smaller, more specialized ones do, hence the disparity between the juges' and the public's opinions... I haven't even thought of "the chances lost" until Jacquie pointed them out, but I am now even more thoroughly upset on behalf of all those of you who'd entered and never got the chance to be *seen*
[...] people enter with the hope, but not the neccessarily the expectation, of achieving some recognition for their work. If it is not even to be displayed then the incentive, to my way of thinking, is considerably reduced.
That is, I think, what my Polish teachers of English were talking about, when they mentioned "the famous British understatement"... :)
--- Tamara P Duvall http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) Healthy US through The No-CARB Diet: no C-heney, no A-shcroft, no R-umsfeld, no B-ush.
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