PSM/PPSM can precipitate the artist’s confrontation with the ambient romanticism hovering over the creative lifestyle. One can be bedazzled by a positive reception for an exhibit. Embracing the role of the dandy in the show’s afterglow can be cathartic. Alternatively, one can sink into despair, loathing, and maudlin indulgence. Success and Failure are polar extremes that can dent the fragile identity with which most of us in the arts operate, when we are not bounding from pinnacle to pinnacle of inflated confidence, earned or not. It is helpful to have in place solid markers of value by which one can discern meaning in an artistic progression. Expressive realization does not fit linear analysis well. The process is dimensional, evolutionary. Being and becoming are art’s immaterial core. However viewers, peers, collectors, dealers, critics and casuals respond to the exhibition, the artist is anchored to things, and anchored by making them, in contradiction to Chaos and Chance.