Damien The E-Mail? A Cryptic Missive to CultureGrrl

Okay, Damien (if it is indeed you). Here's what you should take from that:

Keep doin' what you're doin'. It's for you to invent and provoke. It's for us to interpret (as best we can) and react. That's what makes you an artist; us, mere audience. The best artists confound and subvert our conventional expectations, and you're squarely in that untraditional tradition.

But since CultureGrrl is all about making provocative suggestions for improvement, here's one for "Beautiful Inside Your Head Forever" (the Hirstian title of the upcoming Sotheby's, London, auction):

Offer all 223 works without reserve: The highest bidder gets it; no minimum price. If (as you stated in the Sotheby's press release) you want this sale to be "democratic," that's the way to put your money where your mouth is. Whether the auction house, your dealers and your collectors will be happy with that gambit is another matter.

But if marvelous Maev is right, and you are "cocking a snook" at the art market, what better way to snooker?

So, Art-lings, have I sent an e-mail reply to "Pharmacy," asking for his true identity? Of course. Do I expect an answer? Ummm....