Hi Charlotte,
I feel so happy for you to see results from your efforts at independent creativity. I have always been puzzled but steadfast in my belief in your talent. Either I'm naive, (which is sometimes true) or a visionary, (I dream of that possibility but hardly can say so!)
It's a hard knife edge sometimes between insight and insanity, delusion or being informed and well ahead of the pack. Is this work meaningless doodling? That's what I ask myself harshly with my own compound images. Or, perhaps,r is it directed or else discovery from inspired doodling and design? The latter has been my impression and I believe that's what's going on with your work. Being able to walk in such places is tough; being competent to criticize the work often as taxing. I want to understand and encourage but not put you off balance! When they finally accept your work we'll really celebrate as the market will have started to speak! When that happens we have to listen.
Asher