whoops, sry about the duplicate comment. i'm on super crappy dialup and i get waaaay too many time outs....maybe it's my comp trying to tell me something, like teachers in elementary school giving kids a 'time out' for bad behaviour
#actually, i did miss the nipple. i wasn't particularly looking for sex things...i was just going thru ur gallery and saw what looked like a penis waving in someone's face and was like 'gee, this seems kinda out of place in the gallery', so i checked it out and found it to be an arm... *shrug*
Lol. That's kinda funny actually. I had my work in a show down in the States, and my ex-friend and former agent dumped my work on the wrong side of the border before she came home. I had to go and collect it from another friend, and then bring it across myself. . . well, the ex-friend had left a bunch of her purchased prints mixed in with my work, and customs is fussy about purchased art, and receipts (taxes, et all). She didn't leave any receipts. . . and I did think about turfing her prints. . . I can't bring myself to destroy art. I could prove my pieces were done by me, and not purchased, but the other stuff. . . well, I tucked it in, behind the Wood Nymph piece, and crossed my fingers.
Customs broke $2,000 worth of my sculpture, as they searched the work, but stopped when they got to this piece. Why? They were distracted by the nipple. No joke. I should have had this piece taped to the top of the sculpture box.
There was no recourse for claiming the $2,000 back. I don't even have pictures of the pieces that were lost.
i don't know how i missed some of these messages u left me, but i'm at a library in a near town with (yipee) cable speed, so i'm going thru my box...
wow, that sucks dude. i would've lost it on the customs guy.
i didn't know u do sculptures too. r there some in ur gallery? i'd like to see that stuff, as i can't do sculptures, but luv looking at stuff i can't do.
what did they say about the nip? as in, how did u know they were looking at it? did they go 'hey jones! jones, come look at this sweet nipple!'?
LOL
Yes, I do have one sculpture in my gallery - Apple Cider is the title of the first shot, and Running for Refill is the second. The rest of the faerie sculptures are still in the States (since 2001). I haven't done many in the last couple of years.
As far as the 'nip-obsessed' customs agent, it was a sight to behold; he picked the whole piece up, took it over to the light, and stared at it - you know, in that way that guys maintain eye contact with large breasted women. A fellow agent came over and spoke to him, but the guy's eyes never left the piece. . . he even touched it.
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#actually, i did miss the nipple. i wasn't particularly looking for sex things...i was just going thru ur gallery and saw what looked like a penis waving in someone's face and was like 'gee, this seems kinda out of place in the gallery', so i checked it out and found it to be an arm... *shrug*
Customs broke $2,000 worth of my sculpture, as they searched the work, but stopped when they got to this piece. Why? They were distracted by the nipple. No joke. I should have had this piece taped to the top of the sculpture box.
There was no recourse for claiming the $2,000 back. I don't even have pictures of the pieces that were lost.
wow, that sucks dude. i would've lost it on the customs guy.
i didn't know u do sculptures too. r there some in ur gallery? i'd like to see that stuff, as i can't do sculptures, but luv looking at stuff i can't do.
what did they say about the nip? as in, how did u know they were looking at it? did they go 'hey jones! jones, come look at this sweet nipple!'?
Yes, I do have one sculpture in my gallery - Apple Cider is the title of the first shot, and Running for Refill is the second. The rest of the faerie sculptures are still in the States (since 2001). I haven't done many in the last couple of years.
As far as the 'nip-obsessed' customs agent, it was a sight to behold; he picked the whole piece up, took it over to the light, and stared at it - you know, in that way that guys maintain eye contact with large breasted women. A fellow agent came over and spoke to him, but the guy's eyes never left the piece. . . he even touched it.
burn the nip! quick! the agent-rubbed nip!
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