Art is funny, and Maria and I talk all the time about the need for creative people to be flexible, and adapt art to the times. I take photos, and am not comfortable selling $400 photos right now. Nor do I really want to put out a bunch of smaller ones. So I just don’t sell them, until and if I figure it out.
  Maria hit upon potholders as a way to make her art and get it out to people who can’t afford quilts right now, although she has sold all of the quilts she’s made. The potholders have been flying out of the Studio Barn, and she told out the ones she brought to Gardenworks. She brought this one home to mail it to somebody, and her mother came and bought it while she was out. Strange how art works. Changing and challenging times (I gag at the term “in this economy”) require creative people to think differently about art and how it reaches people.
 In my experience, creative people adapt. And new kinds of art is made, new notions of what art is. Maria didn’t consider potholders to be art. I think she does now.