Same number, different value...

 

I painted 3 commissions paid by the exactly same number of dollars with decades apart, the value of that money is depreciated, and the buyers are so different.

My first corporate commission was intended to be a cover of a Bible for a British publisher when I just came here. I painted Three Gorges of the Yangtze River.

The second one was world mosque series, were really published by an Islamic publisher in DC. I witnessed how hypercritic of this religious owner was.

Now I am painting a house for a portrait client, this project delayed way too long so you can see how low priority I put my paintings now. In the meanwhile,an agent is starting to market my portraits in DC. So house against house, DC against DC, this is another life circle I am experiencing. But if my book be published, I'll enter my new higher stage of real value.