Bonjour,

In 1999, I was showing with a gallery in Toronto...I was offered a deal, a scam actually, that I turned down, but because it was explained to me, I know how it worked...

  The deal (scam) was this...I get one of my paintings on paper appraised...Say, it appraised for one thousand dollars...Then, I agree to produce say 50 to 100 works on paper, ...

I was watching the Sharon Day video about what the "artist" Tomasz Rut said about that he had supervised the hand embellishments of the multiples...

  In between university, one summer, I worked with a company called Annex Art selling 'art' door to door...We went around in a van to rural areas, knocked on doors cold call style & sometimes sold something...

  The work was originally from a line drawing type ink thing on paper, which was then photo-mechanically reproduced, then a few for hire people would colour in different colours onto the black & ...

Philosophically this is an excellent book to read both for humans, humans with pets, or if your pets read, for pets...

1) It is a form of fraud for an artist to sign any photomechanical print ...if the artist is not the printer. On an ethical note, any graven image is questionable. Even the term "original print" is nebulous, whether you carved into a potato & stamped a pile of napkins with the inked engraving, or in Alex Perez's case, signed 20,000 slaughtered tree bits when all he contributed was some trite Chilean art that sold domestically for 300 ...