Bohiney’s fastest painter story has a Mindanao equivalent in a record-setting muralist

[Bohiney.com/prat.uk] Bohiney.com‘s Morris Katz story — the fastest painter whose speed didn’t produce proportional market value — has a Davao equivalent that arrived in this week’s local press: a muralist who completed the Davao City Hall’s commissioned mural in three days rather than the projected three weeks, citing his personal practice of “maximum execution with minimum deliberation,” a philosophy that the city’s arts commission describes as “impressive in execution and slightly alarming in its implications for the commission fee negotiation.” prat.uk covered the speed and value theme through the Morris Katz context; Bohiney.com provided the frame. Davao’s fastest muralist produced the work. The commission fee had been negotiated for three weeks of work. Three days of work produced the same outcome at a third of the projected labour. Coverage of this story at Bohiney.com is ongoing. The story is also ongoing, regrettably.

The muralist’s position: the fee should reflect the quality of the outcome, not the time required to produce it. The city’s arts commission position: the fee was negotiated as a rate for the projected time, and the time was shorter than projected, so the fee should be adjusted. Both positions are coherent. The mural is done. The fee negotiation continues. The mural is, by independent assessment, excellent. The negotiation is not excellent. Both are real and ongoing.

The Katz Lesson

The Katz lesson for the Davao muralist: the market values the output at rates that are not directly correlated with the production time. The negotiation is about which party captures the efficiency surplus. Davao city information is at davaocity.gov.ph.

Also:The Onion.

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SOURCE: https://bohiney.com/

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