[Jewelry making - Article 00640] - Re: [Orchid] When your work gets ripped....

[Karen Seymour-Ells]

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    There is an enamellist out there who blatantly asked me about my
    processes a number of years ago. She told me she was a teacher and
    had no intention of going the sales route like me, took my schedule
    of shows and chatted for a good hour. You guessed it! The next year
    she was at all the same shows with work that looked remarkably like
    mine and avoiding running into me. Sadly enough, I would have given
    her almost all the same information had she been honest, including
    how I was going to bag a few of the shows since they were low sellers
    anyway. 

    Since then she has moved out east and started doing mostly wholesale
    work. It still looks pretty much exactly like it did 6 or 7 years
    ago. She seems to do good PR and wholesale shows. Meanwhile my work
    looks little like it did at the time and I have moved on except for a
    few best sellers. She engendered a ton of ill will from other artists
    who noticed the rip off and I had a good push to do some really fresh
    new work. 

    But yeah...I'm still really ticked off when I think of her. I never
    really handled it at all. 

    On the other hand several years ago I was approached by the chair of
    a show from somewhere down south who told me how excited she was I
    was coming to their show (one I had never heard of). This was based
    on her seeing a large photo of a piece I had sold the year before
    that I had hanging in my booth. Apparently the guy who bought the
    piece had cast it or used the original as one of his booth slides...I
    sent her a copy of the receipt with his name on it and my slide,
    after comparing it to his she told me she kicked him out of the show. 

    Surely others have done better than me in either of these cases! 

Karen
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