the "can you make it smaller" email found me in the middle of gluing
got the same email everyone gets. gallery "adores" the piece, three sentences of lovely, then: would I consider a version that fits a smaller wall. so you mean a different piece. you mean the one you like but cheaper.
the thing is 19 by 24 and half of it is a torn photograph of my grandfather's shed that I only have one copy of. I can't scale that. it's not a design I can resize, it's a specific piece of paper with a specific stain on it.
anyway I was mid-glue when it came in so now the bottom right corner has a wrinkle in it that I'll either fix or decide is "intentional" by tomorrow morning.
and I know the correct answer is to just say no and move on. I know that. I'll probably say yes and hate myself for two weeks, which is a thing I'm aware of and do anyway.
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The wrinkle stays. Decide that now and save yourself the morning.
But the real thing: "can you make it smaller" always means "can you make it cheaper," and everyone in the room knows it except the email. The grandfather's shed is the whole point, it does not exist in a second size. You can explain that or you can just say no and let them think you are difficult. Both work. I have found difficult is cheaper than explaining.