GBLSTS does not grow through recruitment, outreach campaigns, or the active pursuit of artists as a strategy for expansion. It grows through recognition.

Recruitment assumes a system that must continually search for participants in order to sustain growth. It prioritizes activity and accumulation. Recognition operates differently. It assumes that alignment already exists and that the role of the steward is to perceive it with clarity.

Within GBLSTS, artists are not gathered to fill a structure. They are recognized when their work demonstrates coherence, integrity, and a signal that resonates with the field’s orientation.

Recognition may arise in different directions. An artist may approach the gallery because they resonate with what it stands for. The steward may encounter a body of work that already carries alignment with the principles guiding the gallery. In either case, the relationship begins from recognition rather than pursuit.

What matters is not who initiates contact, but whether the work belongs within the field.

This distinction protects the gallery from indiscriminate accumulation. Growth through recruitment often produces collections of work that share proximity but not coherence.

Recognition ensures that each addition strengthens the structure of the gallery.

Selection within GBLSTS is therefore guided by curatorial clarity rather than volume. Alignment matters more than speed of expansion.

Over time, this process generates curatorial gravity. 

Work that belongs within the field tends to appear at its edges. 

The steward’s responsibility is simply to recognize it.

This entry exists to clarify that GBLSTS grows through alignment, not accumulation. Through recognition, not recruitment.