It's always useful to find out what other writers and artists think about their work. This, from Rosemary Sutcliff:
"The temptation is to try & use everything you’ve found out in…research. That can be fatal, because you…only need to use about 1/10. It’s…like an iceberg…It has to be there, because it gives you the freedom of the period. But you don’t use it.”
It has some relevance to my planning of embroidery projects, especially the #OpusAnglicanum. I need to know something about it, but I'm not trying to do a period-accurate one, so I have to be a bit careful about what I include of what I know.
I built a crate for my painting. Do you think it belongs in a museum? #brodalisque
[Description: In the corner of a white room with sparse artifacts, a nerd in khaki garb and a brown fedora poses near a tall wooden crate and a horizontal oil painting of two lounging brodalisques.]
Today in 'Shitty Art-world Gatekeepers Treating Artists Shittily' news...
Wondering what happened to some applications that took days and days to put together, I find that @arselectronica who run an EU Digital Deal residency are not even bothering to notify losers! Only winners contacted.
No feedback was bad enough. Now, not even a courtesy 'no thank you'.
Shame on you, Ars Electronica.
Shame on all you gatekeepers who think it's fine to treat people this way.
I got ten 11x17" luxury 2024 Calendars printed and packaged, then made a smaller 8.5x11" version to see how that would turn out.
AND I got 23 greeting cards formatted and ready to print with wrap-around covers--I even printed out a sample!!
So now I've got a slew of items ready to get posted for sale in various spots. And even though this is a lot of work, I'm ecstatic. I'm doing what I feel I'm meant to do. Progress!!
My mom sent this family photo of me ca. age 11. I realize the only time I ever feel this content as an adult is when I’m hiking on trails with my partner, taking photographs. But life in the Bay Area forces me to focus on how I will pay rent every month, how I can be productive. Life in America doesn’t value creative endeavors. This reminds me how much my life is out of alignment. May we all find this happiness somehow. #ArtistLife