But you didn't. And what someone else DID create, somehow struck a chord in someone else. We must all have seen reproductions or originals in other people's houses that we have hated. But the owners saw it differently. BiL and SiL commissioned a lovely work of art, and MiL, who is an artist, hates it. I find that very funny and wonder if it is professional jealousy. They live overlooking the sea, and the painting is a large canvas using thick strokes of metallic paint in lines and ripples in golds and browns that catch and reflect the light as it comes into the room. It looks exactly like the tide going out over the sands, in different shades depending on what light hits it. I think it's beautiful and can't understand her objections, but try to. Out of the gathered family that saw it, 7 loved it, one hated it. She said 'anyone could do that'. Well, I couldn't have. And she didn't.