For a man that has no source of job I remain constantly busy. Currently, I am working on 10 paintings, I think? One three foot by five foot painting including all abstraction and a whole lotta magic.Can't disclose the materials as I have sworn to secrecy as people too often enjoy stealing other peoples fire.So for now I'll just call it magic.Another piece is for some friends as a wedding gift abstracting images I took while at their wedding.It will be two foot by four foot. Then I ran into a really good deal after I swore to slow down painting.I found two-pack pre-stretched canvases sixteen inch by twenty inch for $4.99.So know I am also making eight abstract line paintings.Oh, how intellectual I am...Whatever. Then my mom went to the store that I had discovered those other canvases on sale and I had mentioned if there were anymore to by me some. There weren't. So instead, she bought me two anyway and I think a pack of three canvas boards that are pretty small. Have know idea what I am going to do with those yet.
Yesterday I spent all day and night uploading high resolution images of my work on to the site www.finerworks.com which sells prints of work on a variety of papers and canvases. It takes about a half hour to fully load each image onto the site. However, now people get pieces that before were out of the realm of affordability. Instead of an 3' x 8' painting for $5000 one can purchase a smaller version of 22" x 60" for around $200-$300 range. I am not sure if those are the exact measurements. The smaller pieces are a great deal less expensive though. After that ordeal was all said and done I got some much needed sleep. Only to awake bright and early by a dog barking that out weighs me in metric tons.Supposedly it's a chocolate lab. I say it was created in a lab.
After wiping the sleep out of my eyes and gathering my belongings consisting of cell phone, shoes, and keys. I left all other belongings there (there being my mom's house). I was then driven home to catch another 3 worthless hours of daytime sleep before I head off to teach the aspiring youth art at Central Ohio Art Academy where I do it more for the kids and my mentor Donna Boiman than I do for the money. I find the children are smarter and more creative than 90% of the adults I know. After that 2 1/2 hour session is over I am back to my mom's to finish uploading more images onto the site that sells my prints. After a good 3 hour session of that I call it a day and am driven back to my home. I unload the new canvases, set my digital camera down, and hang a piece of art that I brought back from COAA (the place I teach at). As I consider my day almost done I then log into Finer Works site so that I may enter all the detailed info about my pieces that I didn't do at my mom's. After an hour or so of that I go check the mail and low and behold I got my Cd's on the quick and simple way to learn Mandarin Chinese. And about that... Don't ask.
So in summarizing what I am currently working on in life here is my list:
-17 paintings
-learning Mandarin Chinese
-teaching children art on Saturdays
-Filing a claim with the EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission)
-uploading images of my work to be sold as prints
-exercising at the gym an hour or more daily
-apparently racking up over draft fees because I am poor and don't have enough money.
-taking my learning permit for driving, then getting my driver's license.
-coordinating with Savannah, Ga from Columbus, Ohio for an art show June 13 @ Hangfire.
-coordinating with a Spa in Dublin for an art show in August.
-Sending the event coordinator in Dublin my bio, images, and a head shot of yours truly.
-Figuring out my living situation and when I am moving back to Savannah and HOW!
-doing home improvements to the condo that I am currently living in.
-looking for odd jobs so I can make some money here and there without getting a REAL J-O-B.
-Deciding which pieces I am going to enter into the Ohio State Fair so they can reject me again.
-writing my manifesto on Post Modern Barbequeism
-Trying to figure out when I have time to play my Xbox 360. Gotta have priorities.
-And last,but not least I am reading an intense book on how to think like Einstein.
So when people ask me," What do you do all day without having a job?" I am like," Job? Who in the hell has time for a job? I am too busy trying to evolve my own consciousness and take in as much knowledge about as many different things as humanly possible. My job is that of an artist. Which is Jack-of-all-trades."
Unlike those other so-called jobs that people deem acceptable. Those 9 to 5'ers. Mine is anything,but. It doesn't stop. There is no retirement. It's called death. I work when I sleep. I work when I wake. About the only time it doesn't feel like I am working is when I am actually working in it's truest for producing art. My life is my art. My art is my work. So in essence my life is work... All work, no play. Except when I am playing my XBOX 360. Even then my brain is still going on about what I should be doing. What I could be doing. Or, What I don't want to be doing.
So anybodies that ever says they cannot think of anything to do. I pity them. A life without meaning, isn't a life worth having. Come hang out with me I'll put you to work real quick... On second thought, forget it. You'd probably just screw things up and then I'd have to do more. So just go on doing nothing and just move out of my way when you see me coming because I am trying to build an empire of creative conceptual blitzkrieg! For lack of a better term. Peace out!
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