var qsandas = new Array(); qsandas[0] = "1. I don't know whether I should buy this sculpture?\n\nPicture the sculpture in your home, retreat or office and notice how you feel. Talk to yourself about how you feel when you return to look at it each day. Enjoy in your mind the sensations of its textures under your fingers. By this time you know whether to buy this sculpture. Most of my sculptures make people smile, bringing joy to their life. Isn't that enough reason to add a piece of sculpture to yours?"; qsandas[1] = "2. How do I know that the price you are asking for your work is a good value for me?\n\nPricing of fine art sculptures in general and mine in particular is arbitrary. You probably know that the value of a sculpture is what someone is willing to pay for it. My husband, Joe, and I spend time discussing how to price each one of my pieces after it is finished. We base our decision on the cost of materials, overhead, advertising and time. We consider what people have paid for my sculpture in the past. We evaluate how this particular sculpture natches my original vision for it and fits into my portfolio. We strive to be fair and tend to be conservative in our pricing.\n\nWe know that my work is appreciating fairly rapidly. My piece called \'St. Agnes Academy\' is Having a Fortieth Reunion' originally sold for $5,400. Four years later, it was appraised at $15,000. That is an increase in value of 30% each of those four years. Additionally, \'Self Portrait: Feeling All Untied\' sold for $3,500. The person who purchased her was offered $6,000 for it and the owner refused to sell. Happily, the sculpture is now being offered for resale at $7,000 in my portfolio. Another piece, \'Gossip, Two Ladies Talking\' sold for $3,600 and the owner was offered $8,000 for it and refused to sell. So, from that point of view alone, a purchase of one of my works makes sense as an investment. And more importantly, if a piece touches you in such a way that you are considering a purchase, the pleasure it will bring after you take it home just as the ad says on television, \"priceless\". Of course I cannot guarantee that my sculptures will continue this rate of increase, and I am determined to continue producing sculpture of quality and value and promoting my career as a contemporary American artist."; qsandas[2] = "3. How do I care for either the cloth or the bronze?\n\nIn the case of the cloth pieces, keep the piece out of direct sunlight and away from kitchens, from furnace/air conditioner vents and radiators. Then, occasionally use a computer type attachment to your vacuum cleaner to gently vacuum off the dust.\n\nIn the case of a bronze, use the samer type of computer vacuum to clean off the dust, keep it away from moisture and water, and wax it once a year. Floor wax works nicely."; qsandas[3] = "4. What does it mean when you say your cloth sculptures are one of a kind?\n\nIt means that I never will make another piece like it. Each piece is individually designed and executed by me from a new idea that I have about the piece. Sometimes, I do a series of similar pieces, like the Butterflies. In this case, I planned a group of pieces around a single theme for an art installation. Although the pieces are similar, each one is individually made with different materials and designs unique to that piece."; qsandas[4] = "5. What does it mean that you have an edition of nine pieces?\n\nAfter nine pieces are sold the mold is retired. There will be no more bronzes made of that piece. Nine is the number of Museum quality editions. Let me explain about editions of nine pieces in bronze. In my case, each number in my editions reflects current costs and adjustments for inflation. This insures the collector a built in investment from the start. 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