Progress
This is a wedding gift for Chris and Elizabeth.
I spent a month renovating and building my infrastructure, which is the tricky thing artists must do to grow, although infrastructure by definition is often unseen yet indirectly enhances collector meetings and experiences. My two studios have been improved dramatically, I have a place to show my works in a gallery like presentation setting that doubles as my home and place of work, and I am getting back to the easel and sculpture. I am tooling around with a myriad of elements that will present me better, and these all come with diligent fits and spurts of energy, time, vision, money. I am prepping to cast sidewalls on new paintings, which is more interesting and involved than it reads, and I am finishing some new paintings.
One of the hardest things to achieve in the art game is one’s short game with long ball vision… balancing the now with tomorrow in all aspects of studio maintenance and development. This requires astute focus and gut reaction, passages of monastic meditation on art, infrastructural moves that noone will see, and extroverted friendly public relations development all timed in such a way that the studio builds and there maintains a cash flow in the coffers and energy in the tanks of the creator. Artists build engines of creativity, and each artist creates a delicate and fairly original system to keep the engine running. Running an art studio engine is a complex character affair that generally requires self-confidence, self-motivation and good vision. Like any discipline, the art field is littered with plenty of talents who cannot mesh together enough of these elements in space time to maintain for long, let alone a lifetime.
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