RE: Art and Creativity Journal: Maybe "Relentlessness" is the Answer?
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Oh, what a timely post. I have a piece of work in the gallery (I'm a photographer) and the only reason I hope it sells is that I don't want to put another hole in my wall to hang yet another picture :P I'm lazy, you see.
I think a lot of artists and image / artefact makers do it because it satisfies some sort of internal desire to create stuff. Not necessarily to make money. There's also the archetype of the starving artist which... I personally like to project upon myself, because if my work was the only way to obtain calories, I'd be dead.
I'm not dead, and my work is certainly not the source of my current financial position.
Nonetheless, your comments on the relentless marketing is across every industry, and I do not, and cannot understand how it is acceptable for a company or individual to have something new to sell to you every day, or an offer for you everyday.
I am far less likely to buy from a company that sends an email every single day. I unsubscribe from every such "newsletter" and it is so frustrating when that "ubsubscription" lapses because the next time you buy something from them, you're automatically subscribed all over again.
Like, I do not need to buy cat food or cat litter every single day, or speciality wall hooks... or whatever other product a store is peddling.
"Join our Cat Litter of the Month Club!"
I have a feeling the entire world has become deeply enmeshed in the "Eternal Growth Paradigm," as a result of which we see ever stranger promotional pushes to get us to acquire things.
Sorry, but by cats have three buttholes, and only three buttholes, and I do not need to buy more litter than needed for three buttholes, no matter what trickery you (and the "private equity" firm that spawned you) you might serve up.
Sometimes the appeal of being "off grid" is great, but not for the conventional self-reliance reasons!
I do enjoy sharing my work with others, because I can see that they "get" something from it that transcends financial stuff.
And I don't need any more paperweights in the house!
It is just sodium beninoite. The clay. Honestly, if it could be purchased without cute pictures of cats, it'd be much cheaper.
I feel.as though some things don't need to be marketed, they just need to be. Electricity. Fuel. Cat litter. Art.
You either need it, or you don't.
Cats make excellent paperweights.