Reading Caroline Picard's article alongside of Dave Hickey's was interesting to me because while Hickey was so concerned with the fact that art was being treated as an interchangeable commodity Picard is more interested in getting her work out there into the world to be seen. Hickey briefly mentions that they're are already more artist and artworks than there are buyers. Yet our world of consumers is so interested in commodities, and artist are all about getting their ideas out there and wanting their views to be seen that they are stepping away from the traditional world of art and displaying their pieces in a more eclectic fashion. She is saying that it is more about what we can show and do as individuals outside of this typical scene that is the art world so we do not have to rely on this keeping up with the Jones' way of life. Picard states that as artist we have to make sacrifices, such as spending money that should have gone else where on your child's new school clothes, but, in all actuality it is these so-called 'sacrifices' that make us human and less commercialized.
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