"popular" museums ...

That very senior "marketing" man call me again this morning. Maybe to add some "little angel element" in their products can help them to boost sales. It's ridiculous. These days nearly all product say they're targeting the "angel" market. How could it be? We're the minority in this new-world society. Those giant shopping malls are not our favourite haunt either. In the end all these products are consumed by those middle-aged elite. The marketing man said my work is very artistic ... ha ... my father is a real artists. why they didn't call him? why his sculpture works could never be allowed to exhibit in their "popular" museums? why he and my mother drifted apart?
"Your father is not an artist. Have you heard anybody talking about his name? He's just a lazy man living off social welfare. Nowadays the machines do all the production work, so mediocrity is a sin, even being an artist ..." I remember my mother once told me last time she got drunk at my home. Of course at my home, according to the law, it's illegal to use the word "mediocrity" to describe a person publicily. ..I hang up the phone without saying a word.

那個「非常高級」的市場經理今早又再來電。可能加入一些「小天使」的元素真的能夠幫助他們推銷貨品。但實在可笑。今時今日差不多全部產品也說是針對「天使」的市場。怎可能呢？在這個新世界社會我們不過是少數，那些巨型的購物中心亦不是我們愛留連的地方。最後這些產品都是全給那些中年的精英份子買了。市場經理說我的作品很有藝術性 ... 哈 ... 我爸爸是一個真正的藝術家。為何那個經理不找他？為個他的雕塑作品從不可以在他們那些「流行」藝術館展出？為何他和媽媽會疏遠起來？
「你爸爸不是一個藝術家。你聽過其他人談論過他的名字嗎？他只不過是一個依靠社會福利維生的大懶人。今時今日機械負責了全部的生產工作，所以平庸也是罪 ，即使作為一個藝術家亦一樣 ... 」我記得上次媽媽來我家喝醉了，曾經這樣對我說。當然是在我家，根據法律，在公眾場合用「平庸」一詞去形容一個人是犯法的。我沒有說一個字便掛斷了線。