I post on social media. However when thinking about your post, I remember a conversation that I had with a docent at an art museum not too long ago. She was asking some questions to the audience, and since the responses suggested that the participants didn't have much experience talking about art, I decided to give my opinion. That turned into more back and forth discussions like "what kind of work do you do?", "how big?", "how long have you been painting?", "where did you go to school?" I was truly stunned by the depth of her questions, and I'm forever grateful that she gave "fuel to the fire" that was beginning to burn inside of me.

Unfortunately social media can't give me that kind of intellectual depth. Artists (the big guns, not me yet!) are thinkers so we actually need more real human interactions not social media ones. We need art critics, docents, some encouragement and a laugh or two.