What's the phrase a gallery used that made you go "ah here now"?
Mine was a woman in a lovely bright space who looked at my hare prints, smiled, and said "we're moving toward a more contemporary feel." Still not a clue what that meant. I nodded away like a man who understood and left with the folder under my arm.
Your turn. What's the line a gallery said to you that you're still chewing on years later? The polite no, the mad excuse, the compliment that was secretly a door closing. Give us the words as close as you remember them, the phrasing is the best part.
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"We are looking for something more urban, more modern." That one stayed with me. I asked kindly, is Mithila painting not modern also, it is being done since long but by living hands. The lady only smiled. I think they did not mean the art at all, they meant the buyers. But it took me some years to understand that, at that time I just folded my paper and came home.
Your hare prints, they sound lovely ji. Let them move toward their contemporary feel, the hare will not mind.