This man has long being inspirational for me, as I mentioned in my previous post he was my teacher in Ecole de Beaux Arts Dijon (by the way, since I graduated the state has change the name of the school to just “school of art” and has taken the fine out of the fine art equation). He seduces you while cooking amazing Chinese food in an enormous round table in his house. He was the first to buy me one of my large scale drawings. He still lives in Dijon doing portraits for the wealthy and art projects for the government from what I see from this far. Yesterday I was chatting with a friend in france now living in Paris and she told me she hated Ming because all he was doing as an artist was to make great projects with the government… selling out! she said. now, I can not imagine how much money this might be for him… but it has to be good. I have to admit I did not know what to say to her, she is not an artist but she had a defined opinion about it already and I did not. I have being thinking about it since yesterday. The institutional artist funds is something no artist can avoid in France since the private section is lacking enormously behind. I would like to have a set opinion on this matter but it changes very quickly in my mind. I still don’t know what to think… can you guys give me some comments…