Two images can look identical on your phone. Order one as a poster and it shows up for forty dollars. Order the other as a fine art print and it can run a hundred times that. Same picture, wildly different objects, and the gap confuses almost everyone who asks me about it...
Researchers once timed how long visitors spend with a single work of art at the Metropolitan Museum. The average came in under thirty seconds. Count that out next time you're standing in a gallery...
Most collections don’t begin with a major purchase. They begin with a single photograph that someone keeps coming back to and just feels right. I’ve watched this happen with collectors at every price point...
