"Catch 22" or "Running Around with my Hair on Fire"

I will likely do more to edit this little me character as I go forward (insert flames), but one of the things that makes me feel like I am doing just that....running around with my hair on fire...is begging people to "like" me or "click this and that" in an effort to get "the word" out and show off more art work. Most of my artist friends agree...we could spend 85% of our time on the computer or phone, marketing and maintaining communications, and a mere 15% (or, sadly, far less) actually making the art.

It isn't a balance that sits well with most of us. It isn't balanced at all.

We artists dream that we will simply "be discovered" like naive potential starlets in the early days of movies. We extract great joy from the process of creating, and then again great joy when a viewer really, really likes something we have created. From the drawing board to the wall there is so much to do! Now with facebook and websites and pins to manage as well as the old-fashioned finding gallery or public space to display the business of art has changed in a fabulous way. In a really fabulous sucking-all-the-time-and-life-from-you way. Like running around with my hair on fire. I am not really sure if I should just scream "look at me" or beg you to put it out!

With just two weeks until I unveil the new work going into the show "A Sea in Myth and Reality" things really are very busy, but here I am typing a blog entry. My first instinct is to keep the computers off, lock the door and stop answering the phone so I can get everything just right...but when I don't let you in on what I am up to then I don't sell a thing. And the only way to keep making art is to sell some.

So follow me, would you?