Ars Brevis, Vita Longis
Jan. 22nd, 2006 01:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
profundisTakin' down my art installation from the Cafe at Borders on Barrett this weekend. Its been up there (with a couple of revisions) for about 13 months now, which was totally unexpected - it was supposedly just a one month display. I was thrilled they let me keep it up and they always remarked how people asked about it all the time, my cards kept being taken, etc...yes no one ever contacted me about any of it. With nearly 2 dozen pieces out for over a year its disappointing that I didn't sell a one of them. So now taking it down (they're going to change formats and let school kids rotate art out monthly) feels rather like a defeat than the denouement of a good long run.
It might feel less that way if I'd spent any real time or energy on ym art in the last year except for Dragon*Con (a good show, I sold well again, but it was all older work - nothing new). This year Dragon*Con will likely be the only show I do again. I just don't seem to have the time to do it all, and that kinda sucks. I could be less social, but not only does that seem unattractive for various personal reasons, it would also hamper my networking for my massage business.
*sigh*
I've taken hundreds of new pics for source material in the last few years and barely touched them as far as making art goes. I just never was as successful at the entire business process with art as I have been at massage so far. Maybe I just don't know what I'm doing when it comes to marketing my art, maybe I'm just not as good as I think I am. Maybe massage is just easier. Maybe I'm better suited to massage. I dont know. All I know is I have bills and debts to pay and art isn't doing it, so it gets the back-burner.
The sucky thing is the back-burner has guttered out and I don't know when or if it will ever get relit.
It might feel less that way if I'd spent any real time or energy on ym art in the last year except for Dragon*Con (a good show, I sold well again, but it was all older work - nothing new). This year Dragon*Con will likely be the only show I do again. I just don't seem to have the time to do it all, and that kinda sucks. I could be less social, but not only does that seem unattractive for various personal reasons, it would also hamper my networking for my massage business.
*sigh*
I've taken hundreds of new pics for source material in the last few years and barely touched them as far as making art goes. I just never was as successful at the entire business process with art as I have been at massage so far. Maybe I just don't know what I'm doing when it comes to marketing my art, maybe I'm just not as good as I think I am. Maybe massage is just easier. Maybe I'm better suited to massage. I dont know. All I know is I have bills and debts to pay and art isn't doing it, so it gets the back-burner.
The sucky thing is the back-burner has guttered out and I don't know when or if it will ever get relit.
