Selling gear that didn't work out.
I've got a number of artists' books to print up later this year. Projects already placed at museums and special collection libraries. Here are 2 of them. (Still need to set up the Tumblr for book #3.)
nsfw
http://bikermardigras.tumblr.com/
http://dewallenrld.tumblr.com/
Also have a number of prints due to requests when I get the time. I have maybe 6 to 8 big projects to shoot this year. I've scaled back when I will take the camera out. Just no time to even look through it all. So I only shoot if there is portfolio or museum placement potential. Right now I am working on 500 gigs of pix from 2014 I never looked through.
Also working on 4 other artists' books in various stages of completion.
I had to laugh, a few hours after I figured out how to post here yesterday I got this wonderful welcome private message...
I teach at one of the institutions that you have listed as "where my pix end up." Sending an institution an unsolicited 'gift' is not at all the same as an institution requesting work from an established artist as an addition to their existing collection. But it does work well to help pad one's CV to make it all look so yummy and real..... As Andy Warhol said: '15 minutes.' The internet can make anyone look like a star...... 😉
I hope 'the teacher' is more encouraging to the students. I routinely cut the critics out of my blogs with disabling comments. I will continue to cut critics out of my life left and right. When you have a vision, work towards that vision with unshakable commitment.
Scape Martinez sums how the successful artist works...
“Never give up! Don’t listen to the haters. Don’t try to be an artist unless you can work and live in isolation, without any thanks....bleak, but needed until you get to the much lauded place."
That is my resolution!
