One Door Opens as Another Closes
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daydreamer
Posted on: 10/08/07
One Door Opens as Another Closes
Today I sent out notices for my open studio next weekend. It was sad because I am closing the door on the big marketing effort.This will be my last event for a while because my energy is limited and i know that once i go for my bone marrow i will have almost no energy.
So i will spend my artistic time making art, not promoting it.
Marketing yourself and your art is s very big job and it wasn't until my disease had overtaken me that i realized how much energy it takes. And yes it gave back energy. I loved meeting other artists, going to openings and classes and seminars, watching for calls for art that fit what I'm doing and sending my art out to all those places. And I was getting accepted more and more, so it was fun and exciting. But it was drawing me away from my first love which is making the art, and it was really pulling me out of shape in terms of sharing art. I had to ask the sort of prices that artists ask in order to be taken seriously as an artist. and while my work was always worth the asking price, people could not always afford it.
So while my reputation was growing i was missing out on the spiritual connection that comes when you know someone has your work hanging in their home or office. A little piece of my view of the world is being viewed a whole new way by others viewing it!
So the door on excitement and possible success is closing for now, while the door to greater connection is opening up. I plan to share my art more, deeply discounting my work for the open studio and donating 10% to the leukemia society. after that i want to see about getting my work into cancer wards. I will start with where I'm going - in Stanford and where i was the first time, Kaiser Oakland. boy they could use some art over there! So that my art may be uplifting for others.
please come to the open studio if you are in the neighborhood!
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