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From my first look at Delia several weeks ago, my perspective has greatly changed since then. At first I thought that Delia was just a bunch of cool artists who hang around, make what they want and then sell it. It seemed fairly simple. As it turns out though, there’s much more to it, though they do hang around quite a bit. Delia is a business, and while the workers there are great artists, their main goal is to be successful, make money, and support themselves or their families. This means that the artists rarely get to make something that they really want to create. It’s not about what they artist wants, but about what the market wants and what sells. Many times I will comment on a piece in the shop, and the maker will shrug and say "it sells", but you can see the lack of enthusiasm towards some of the stuff they make. Most of the things that Delia makes our wine holders, tables, and garden odds and ends. My goal in the beginning was to create something cool out of metal that I could put in my room or give to my mom. Now though, after getting a better idea of what Delia really is and does, I think a much more practical, and cooler goal would be to create something that could be sold in the gallery or appeal to a wide range of customers. In this sense, I would be doing what the other artists do at Delia, create something that sells, has cheap materials, and a low construction time to maximize efficiency. In many ways that’s much more difficult than building something just for oneself.