DREAMING THE DEAF AWAKE

THE DREAM

Henri Rousseau

AT THE CORNER OF ART AND COMMERCE STREETS

HERE ARE SEVEN HARD TRUTHS ABOUT ART:

1.ART is either a divine accident, or a miserable mistake.... we aren’t sure which.

2.ART is a complete waste of time until you become wildly successful.

3.Sanity and ART don’t mix, but sometimes they will glare at each other.

4.Once you are a successful ARTist, even your toenails become valuable.

5.You probably can’t trade your ART for a new Volvo.

6. They would rather invite a dead great ARTist for dinner than a live maybe great one.

7.Whatever ART is, it's not gravy.

FILE DRAWERS FULL OF PEOPLE

I want to write on a lot of other topics but I’m forced to do some business first.

I have been showing and selling my work since the late 70s, I have tried to be conscientious about maintaining a mailing list and keeping records of which collector bought which sculpture etc. There was an art boom in the 80s and I sold a lot of work. Often galleries do not want artists to know who bought their work as they feared the artists would cut deals directly with the collectors and leave them out......so at times getting information was tough.

At any rate I have mailing lists out the wazoo. A while back it dawned on me that changes of all sort occur in people’s lives. Lives change …my mailing list should change. I rarely changed it.

In fact keeping up with collectors became a full time job. I guess I slacked off in the mail and records department. Other than a few feeble rallies I have pretty well given up the fight.

If you bought a piece of mine years ago you are probably in “File- drawer A…B or C.” I get you out every once in a while and dust you off. Sadly I would rather get to work on something new than keep up with this stuff.

However along with this blog, which is somehow connected to Facebook and twitter, I now have a computerized mailing list. All of this is courtesy of Ashley. All I have to do is not screw it up.

So I am asking people who want to stay in touch to sign my mailing list …either on this site or on Facebook. I promise you will no longer end up in my studio in a cold file drawer but will be safe and warm in my computer.

Thanks

The management

SO HAPPENED BEFORE DREAM

Shall I question what the day brings or what the night leaves behind ? Last night was dream heavy and vision laden . Stirred into the soup of day it vividly fades and haunts my inner eye. Now I face another night....who knows? The mystery of it all still bides her time.