I am fortunate enough not to need the money that selling my Fine Art pictures brings. But yet, selling my photographs creates immense inner excitement. I have lately started pondering on the sources of the satisfaction, peeling the layers of the feeling that is created by giving the artwork to somebody else.
a) it is a connection, admittance that the same piece of art appeals to both of us, maybe not for the same reasons, bu tit is a connection to another person that is being built, with the possibility for expansion.
b) Bang for the buck. I already created it, enjoyed it, stared at it. Now somebody else values it enough to pay for it, and by extension is enjoying it too, at no extra cost to the universe - the art work is already there, but more people now enjoy it.
c) validation and encouragement to continue doing what I do, and hope that there are people out there that care to share the joy with me.
d) Money. I think money received for the photographs does couple of things for me: clears my guilt for spending money on photography, and also ensures that person getting the artwork actually wants it, values it.
- It all goes back to connection to things and people outside of me, that is why I started taking pictures in the first place
I bought a photography in one of your exhibitions in Boston. The photography is now hanging in my house in Madrid and every time I look at it I can feel the roughness and solitude of the Death Valley where the picture was taken.
ReplyDeleteThat is what I love most about your pictures, they take me to places where I have never been and I can even feel them!