Project Portrait 100: Project Portrait 100 is an experimental social practice project and "crude qualitative case study" inviting the public at large to respond to a series of calls via Craigslist to paint my portrait for the chance of randomly procuring a money order for $100.00 (randomly = participant's name literally picked from a hat). I received over 200 inquiries via email and a number of final portrait submissions, although a significant proportion of individuals (over 90%) were not interested in particpating unless they were paid for their work--the promise of possibly receiving $100.00 after being selected at random was of little appeal. Ergo, one might deduce that according to the masses, art production is directly intertwined to a market, and specifically to its monetary value -- labor for just compensation, plain and simple. Moreover, one might further deduce that creative production/artistic practice is no different than most "professional occupations" and that concepts related to symbolic and cultural value are of little importance in contemporary society. It should be noted that one name was ultimately selected from a hat: Katy Vanderburg from WA; she was mailed a check for $100.00 in 2013.
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