Is this thing on?

Is there any special reason why the only feedback I've gotten on my last two paintings (Red Chair #1 and Red Chair #2) has been a tiny smattering from total strangers (that's counting not just my journal, but communities, my portfolio, deviantART, etc.)? Are they that boring? Or are they not accessible? Or is it just some retarded social thing like because the paint manufacturer's friend dated your friend's friend's sister fourteen years ago so you won't comment for fear that your friend's friend's sister might take that as an endorsement of the brand of paint and that would make you a bad friend and get you dirty looks at the nightclub you won't go to anymore because the guy who cleans the bathrooms there is dating the paint manufacturer's ex-wife's cousin and had the gaul to add the paint manufacturer to his friends list on LJ?