September 11th
On a day like this one, that is the heavy anniversary of an atrocity, it seems rather small-minded to be thinking about anything else. We all must remember where we were and what we were doing when the planes crashed into the World Trade Center towers, and, at least, stop doing everything for a moment today to give a thought and prayer to those lives that ended so suddenly.
But life has this persistent habit of going on, and so it has. Workmen outside are digging, cars are clogging the arteries, and the plants still need watering. So it goes.
Yesterday, I did another festival, this one called 'the Solano Stroll" in Albany, which is just north of Berkely here in Northern California, not to be confused with the capitol of New York State. The festival, like the one I did the weekend before, was well populated, and like the weekend before, I came away feeling pretty disapointed with sales. In fact, I failed to even make back the costs of the show! A dismal showing, I have to admit.
So, I have to face my biggest lesson: don't get discouraged, and don't permit anything to dampen my spirit for art. Today, it has been business as usual, and I have dug in to call clients who have mentioned work, or those for whom I have works in progress, not to mention that I have yet another festival coming up this weekend: the 3 day Monterey Jazz Festival. Yikes! I'm already tired just thinking about it, but, thanks to my poor sales over this past weekend, I'll have plenty of inventory ready to go for Monterey. How's that for a nice spin?
I spent a good amount of time at the Solano Stroll working on a fine piece, the remake of my 1994 "Clarient-itus" bigger and hopefully better this time around. Working bigger is more challenging, no doubt about it. If I was working 6' wide, maybe I could command a better price for it, but I'll settle for 28" wide. It is a very good, fun piece . I wish I could say I came away from the Solano Stroll with more than just some good work time, but that is the truth. Some of these festivals are true duds, and this, for me, was one of them. Time to move on.
At this point, it was time to add a figure on to an excellent piece of commercial work that was completed a few weeks ago. It's funny to come back to a piece of art that one hasn't touched for nearly a month: at first it seems foreign, almmost as if someone else had done it, but within a few minutes you're right back into it, working seamlessly on it as if time had not elapsed.
Speaking of time: it's time to end this blog entry. For anyone interested in commenting on anything I've written, feel free to email me at [email protected]. Enjoy this beautiful day, and give yourself a moment of silence too.
But life has this persistent habit of going on, and so it has. Workmen outside are digging, cars are clogging the arteries, and the plants still need watering. So it goes.
Yesterday, I did another festival, this one called 'the Solano Stroll" in Albany, which is just north of Berkely here in Northern California, not to be confused with the capitol of New York State. The festival, like the one I did the weekend before, was well populated, and like the weekend before, I came away feeling pretty disapointed with sales. In fact, I failed to even make back the costs of the show! A dismal showing, I have to admit.
So, I have to face my biggest lesson: don't get discouraged, and don't permit anything to dampen my spirit for art. Today, it has been business as usual, and I have dug in to call clients who have mentioned work, or those for whom I have works in progress, not to mention that I have yet another festival coming up this weekend: the 3 day Monterey Jazz Festival. Yikes! I'm already tired just thinking about it, but, thanks to my poor sales over this past weekend, I'll have plenty of inventory ready to go for Monterey. How's that for a nice spin?
I spent a good amount of time at the Solano Stroll working on a fine piece, the remake of my 1994 "Clarient-itus" bigger and hopefully better this time around. Working bigger is more challenging, no doubt about it. If I was working 6' wide, maybe I could command a better price for it, but I'll settle for 28" wide. It is a very good, fun piece . I wish I could say I came away from the Solano Stroll with more than just some good work time, but that is the truth. Some of these festivals are true duds, and this, for me, was one of them. Time to move on.
At this point, it was time to add a figure on to an excellent piece of commercial work that was completed a few weeks ago. It's funny to come back to a piece of art that one hasn't touched for nearly a month: at first it seems foreign, almmost as if someone else had done it, but within a few minutes you're right back into it, working seamlessly on it as if time had not elapsed.
Speaking of time: it's time to end this blog entry. For anyone interested in commenting on anything I've written, feel free to email me at [email protected]. Enjoy this beautiful day, and give yourself a moment of silence too.
posted by Rich Sigberman at
1:35 PM
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