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I'm doing a month-long artists' 'game plan' with the wondrous Jessica Serran (yes, that rhymes), on selling one's art without being a doofus (but every day is much MORE than that) -- and all sorts of stuff is coming up. One IMPORTANT thing is that I wasn't fully conscious of just how much I appreciated the people who've bought my work over the years: I never really stopped to think about how they acquired my humble pieces because they really SAW them in a special way, and really liked, if not loved, them. And something I definitely never quite noticed is that these people INSPIRE me, in multifarious ways and often well past our transactions and interactions. A woman who's bought several of my pieces over the years got really excited about this 'bookshelf' cushion when she saw it, but since I hadn't actually put it up for sale it still needed a new pillow form. Thankful for Claudia's good eye and moral support, I decided to use one of my favorite fabrics -- a kind of 'parachute silk' in an art deco aviation design -- for the inner cover, because it 'pops' with the bookshelf colors, even though it'll be invisible. Because I do believe that fabrics, their obvious and not-so-obvious images and meanings, carry a kind of magic. My elements are air and water, and I've been giving 'air' more attention lately. Here's a fine, ineffable song written by Blaze Foley, sung by Merle Haggard: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmbY3HwwXLc
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