I’ve been trying to sort out how I want to approach and sell my art, and one of the key things that I’ve arrived at is the format of who I am.
One part of who I am is an Instigator. I want to make people do something, and it might be in a good way, or in a bad way. (Although instigator usually has a bad connotation to it.)(Also usually because I make people do embarrassing things)
- This means my work has to push someone to action somehow.
- My work must also impact the viewer in a way that the viewer personally feels like they can do something.
- Maybe motivation is the positive in place of Instigating, but I want it to be somewhat challenging societal norms, so maybe instigating is ok?
Another part of who I am is an observer of patterns. I love to see a pattern in life, or to catch a puzzle piece that would fit across different contexts. Easiest way to see or hear this is through Puns. A pun works best when everyone knows the context and knows the misapplied context, and it’s funny.
- My work has to show the viewer a misapplied context
- It might be funny
- But it should be a pattern that viewers can see, and that they can understand is out of place but funny.
- Or ironic.
A last part of who I am is somewhat of a cheapo. I mean I would pay well for things that deserving of my cash, but otherwise, as cheap as possible please! And that also means I love to do things by myself, like DIY.
- so my work needs to be DIY somehow (obviously if im doing art)
- It has to be made with things I would find easily, and be able to produce as widespread as possible
- It has to be fun enough for viewers to want to pick up straight away.
Essentially, I think I’m giving myself the biggest headache on what I want to produce, but I hope it’ll work out anyway. After all, all capitalists will understand biggest bang for buck right. lol.