I had finally contacted one of my early collectors of my art and we had a nice long telephone conversation and he said he'd come over to see my work "soon" (meaning in a week or 2). That was around 2 months ago. I hate to be pushy so finally sent him a text but nothing but crickets. I had initially mentioned to him that my wanting him to see the new work was not a solicitation to buy but that I wanted his feedback on the work. So, for now.......my only audience besides me is anyone coming over to my house, and as I take photos of the work and send them to my artist friend in California (I'm in Texas), there is no audience. Oh well. Maybe when I someday kick that ol' bucket and my kids do something with my art. Whatever.
This is so refreshing after years of the opposite advice, like, "You are not a serious artist unless you pay for an artist website, and you won't recover the cost for a long time." This is why I love Substack so much - it's really pro-art.
He Lexi, I have been checking out your Norse site. Really cool! I spent a long time yesterday reading your stuff. I am not too knowledgeable on Norse culture so I was researching a bit too. Pretty wild and interesting.
Yes, I think for artists, we should probably spend most of our time connecting with our own contemporary artistic community around the world. In the end it will be the artists and creative community all over the world that will carry all of humanity's cultural heritage to the future. That is probably our main job at this point: to discover, preserve, practice and embody the diversity of cultural treasure all over the world. To not only be seers and makers but also scribes, archivists, story tellers and bards. Thinking like that, we have a big and important job before us. much has already been lost and we have to constantly reinvent and keep plowing forward.
I had finally contacted one of my early collectors of my art and we had a nice long telephone conversation and he said he'd come over to see my work "soon" (meaning in a week or 2). That was around 2 months ago. I hate to be pushy so finally sent him a text but nothing but crickets. I had initially mentioned to him that my wanting him to see the new work was not a solicitation to buy but that I wanted his feedback on the work. So, for now.......my only audience besides me is anyone coming over to my house, and as I take photos of the work and send them to my artist friend in California (I'm in Texas), there is no audience. Oh well. Maybe when I someday kick that ol' bucket and my kids do something with my art. Whatever.
This is so refreshing after years of the opposite advice, like, "You are not a serious artist unless you pay for an artist website, and you won't recover the cost for a long time." This is why I love Substack so much - it's really pro-art.
He Lexi, I have been checking out your Norse site. Really cool! I spent a long time yesterday reading your stuff. I am not too knowledgeable on Norse culture so I was researching a bit too. Pretty wild and interesting.
Yes, I think for artists, we should probably spend most of our time connecting with our own contemporary artistic community around the world. In the end it will be the artists and creative community all over the world that will carry all of humanity's cultural heritage to the future. That is probably our main job at this point: to discover, preserve, practice and embody the diversity of cultural treasure all over the world. To not only be seers and makers but also scribes, archivists, story tellers and bards. Thinking like that, we have a big and important job before us. much has already been lost and we have to constantly reinvent and keep plowing forward.
Totally true, and thanks for looking at my work, means a lot!
Yes!! Thanks for this. This is the fundamental reason we are here slogging. We can see the beautiful house somewhere in the distance.