I walked into this place last week and it just felt... off. Like, sterile and judgmental. The kind of place where they'd probably ask me to tone down the 'raw emotion' lol. Anyone else ever get that gut feeling from a gallery space? Spill it!
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I walked into this place last week and it just felt... off. Like, sterile and judgmental. The kind of place where they'd probably ask me to tone down the 'raw emotion' lol. Anyone else ever get that gut feeling from a gallery space? Spill it!
I remember this one time, years ago, I was visiting a place in Athens. The owner was… intense. Like, really intense. He spent more time talking about how famous he was than about the art. I felt a chill. Didn't even leave my card. Anyone else have that gut feeling about a place right away? What was it?
I had a newsletter for almost two years. Every two weeks, a studio note, what I was printing, the tide tables that week, a dried piece of seaweed I pressed between pages. Nothing pushy. Just the work. I stopped six months ago. Not because of open rates or unsubscribes. Because I realised I was writing for an audience I couldn't feel. The emails went out and something went into a void and maybe someone read them somewhere and maybe they didn't. I had no way to tell. I know the advice. Build your list. Own your platform. But I think there's something honest about admitting that not every kind of reach is worth having. The newsletter worked better on paper than it ever did in my gut. I've been quieter online since then. Posting less. Selling more through the people who find me through word of mouth and the local shop that carries my prints. It's slower. It also doesn't feel like I'm feeding something that never looks back. Anyone else stopped doing something that was supposed to be essential and found it didn't matter?
I was so scared to do it. Had this 30x40 oil I'd been sitting on for months, couldn't sell it at $800. I was convinced I was asking too much already, like who do I think I am. Friend basically forced me to relist it at $1150 just to see what would happen. I thought she was insane. It sold in four days. To someone who had scrolled past it at the lower price twice. Now I'm looking at my whole inventory like... was I the problem? Was it always about the price looking too cheap so people assumed it wasn't valuable? Because that's a gut punch. I've been undercharging for YEARS thinking I was being honest about where I'm at, and apparently I was just signaling that my work isn't worth taking seriously. I don't know how to feel about it. Happy for the money obviously. But also pissed at the whole system. And a little embarrassed.