text: Many artists are artists manqué or artists only in their own minds, failed artists. We are told by artists, sometimes real ones, that we have to work harder to appreciate their art. It should be the other way around: they should work harder to provide art that regular people like and that they as artists also like. It's from this tension, this seeming contradiction, that much fine public art in the past was born. If this is impossible and artists haven't the talent and imagination to appeal to the public without compromising their artistic self then perhaps they should change professions. The public should have a little more self confidence: demand more from the artistic community and they just might surprise you.