The Internet is kinda amazing. This is a cool uplifting story of inspiring someone through art, through the worldwide web, almost anonymously. Here's how it went down... I painted This Painting in April 2011 during my residency at YES Cincinnati. The exhibition got a lot of Attention On The Web. Unfortunately, when some people on the Internet share images of other people's art, they do not credit the creator. Sites like Tumblr are notoriously bad for this. They don't even have options to retro-search an image's origin (For example... Why not join forces with Tineye.com and Tumbl on guys? It's only fair.) Anyhow, the photo of that painting I made got spinning around the web. A Woman Who Makes Quilts for fun saw it and decided to use it as a blueprint. But since it was not credited online she had no way to ask for my approval of the idea. Later on, in one of those six degrees of webification moments, These Guys who bought the XYZ Axis Poster Set posted photos of the framed prints on Instagram. At that point the quilter saw the photo and inquired about the artist, the print owners replied with @mwm_graphics and I became aware of the whole thing by clicking though a few links. Kinda amazing indeed. The Internet. 1 / 2 / 3 / 4
