Thanks for commenting! Don't I remember Wegway from way back?
Yes, artists need to get over the worry of 'selling out'. It is not a sell out if your work is about your own inner trail and inner creative development. It is when an artist gets confused about making things they think other people want to buy that causes all the problems.
The kind of collectors an artist should think about are the ones looking for the hidden world that is particular to the artist's own vision of things. All an artist has to do is be authentic to him/her self when in the studio every day.
The representative's hat is the one you put on when you are out representing the private world of the artist in the studio with a sense of detachment. Your just looking for the people that resonate with your vision. Everyone else doesn't matter - they are not your people.
You definitely do remember Wegway. It was a magazine of artists' projects. I was editor, publisher, and fellow artist. Your name is also familiar. I think we might have discovered each other back then, just after the end of the dial-up age of the internet. For me, following links from people's websites was the way to discover new things for the magazine. I think part of the appeal of SubStack is that it is somewhat structured the same way. Hello again.
Yeah, I thought so, we used to email each other or something back in the 90's as I recall or we were in the same yahoo email group or something. Cool. You might have been one of the early post -dogmatists maybe? Yes! Hello again comrade.
Thanks for commenting! Don't I remember Wegway from way back?
Yes, artists need to get over the worry of 'selling out'. It is not a sell out if your work is about your own inner trail and inner creative development. It is when an artist gets confused about making things they think other people want to buy that causes all the problems.
The kind of collectors an artist should think about are the ones looking for the hidden world that is particular to the artist's own vision of things. All an artist has to do is be authentic to him/her self when in the studio every day.
The representative's hat is the one you put on when you are out representing the private world of the artist in the studio with a sense of detachment. Your just looking for the people that resonate with your vision. Everyone else doesn't matter - they are not your people.
You definitely do remember Wegway. It was a magazine of artists' projects. I was editor, publisher, and fellow artist. Your name is also familiar. I think we might have discovered each other back then, just after the end of the dial-up age of the internet. For me, following links from people's websites was the way to discover new things for the magazine. I think part of the appeal of SubStack is that it is somewhat structured the same way. Hello again.
Yeah, I thought so, we used to email each other or something back in the 90's as I recall or we were in the same yahoo email group or something. Cool. You might have been one of the early post -dogmatists maybe? Yes! Hello again comrade.
Those are wise words. Commodification Anxiety is a real thing for artists, extra real even, now that it has its own name. You have soothed my CA.
I thought I was replying but I think I just made a regular comment. Anyway see the previous comment to yours.