Celia Coulter

Give it To Me - Criticism is a lost art

Tell me my art sucks, I can take it.

I might hate you for a minute but if you tell me why it sucks I’ll love you forever. I might even grow a little.

I need to grow …. I am definitely too short. Unfashionably so, It sucks when you have to get every pair of pants you buy taken up. . . . ruins the cut and the bank balance.

Being short sucks. Come on – tell me how much I suck. You know you want to.

  • midzing

    midzing, 8 months ago

    I am short as well,,,,, (midzing,,,,, mid = midget,,, and zing just happened to go nicely with it!!!!) lol….. tip,,,I buy my pants at target, where they have length sizes as well, even the short leg lengths, may have to be taken up a fraction, but not as much,,,, ps,,, your work doesnt suck,,,,,

  • Celia Coulter

    Celia Coulter in reply to midzing’s comment, 8 months ago

    Ha Ha I like your reasoning for your name. Being short doesn’t really suck, just buying short people clothes shopping.

    Yes, I have some target pants myself. It’s the nice ones I mourn about having the scissors taken to them – particularly when I try to do it myself. that always brings tears.

    You are so nice, but sometimes my art does, particularly my photos. Criticism is good for the soul once you grow an inch of skin first!

    At the moment I have been ruining a perfectly good painting.

  • davoid

    davoid, 7 months ago

    Hey. Are you both serious about being short? I can’t tell.

    @Celia
    You’re not the first person on RB to want to hear it told like it is. I think it shows something about the person who wants to feel the brunt and recoil back to dazed shock.

  • Celia Coulter

    Celia Coulter in reply to davoid’s comment, 7 months ago

    A bit of a ahock the the system can be a good thing!!

    And I am short – 159 cm but there are shorter people out there – it still makes clothes shopping a painful experience sometimes!!

  • davoid

    davoid, 7 months ago

    re: shock to the system
    Yes you’re right. I am a Sagittarian: we are known for being blunt, but also like to hear it straight. I’m also a Piscean rising so sometimes it hurts to hear it.

    re: stature
    I’m 172.5cms: (5’8”) not the most towering of fellows… my frame is small so I once bought a shirt from Target boys section…so you are…..: 5’2”.

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Celia Coulter

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Celia Coulter
January 24, 2008

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a, art, criticism, is and lost