Drawing My Ship In

Friday, May 09, 2014

KICKSTARTER - UNDERDOG PROJECT REWARD as an INVESTMENT

Kickstarter is like a fun little school project that you don't have to go by the teacher's agenda. Except it can be a time bandit, absorbing your mind's focus, whether it is successful or failing. How much comes from the community of Kickstarter may depend on how much you yourself have Kickstarted the campaign from your own resources - that's why Kickstarter may not be the best name for the funding platform. Adrenaline Booster may be a better term. It may not be the place where astute critics reach out, but more where, opinionated project surfers seek out waves that fit their liking and they will ride it, until the next wave comes by. How much the funders care about the success of the project may have something to do with how much they care about the person behind it, if they know that person. The project on its own, may be ahead of its time, and may be passed up for any number of reasons. The supporters will feel a royal Kick in the butt when they realize the project that everyone passed up has become quite the work, and the little REWARDS offered for cheap, are now PRIZED COLLECTIBLES demanding high prices. Yeah, that little $25 pledge on the LIMITED EDITION ART PRINT or that higher pledge on an ORIGINAL piece of art, may turn into a major INVESTMENT. But, you can't really say that in the project description. So, let's just say, that the rewards may be worth much MORE than you bargained for. Placing a pledge for that UNDERDOG PROJECT may be your best bet, but to get your "investment" reward, the project has to be fully funded. So, spread the word. And before you know it, you may see a win-win situation and another dream comes true.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1538065671/drawing-my-ship-in

Thursday, May 08, 2014

HOLY GRAIL MINED by an ARTIST

One single loop, drawn over and over, and then a second loop - now two loops drawn over and over. I must have appeared as a crazy person on that factory floor - I was definitely in the grasp of something powerful - this numinous symbol that I drew would not let me lay it down - it was my destiny. It would not let me entertain thoughts of ending the journey - I had started something - and something was going to hatch - I was a vehicle who had been chosen to release this caged symbol - which later was discovered to be a HIEROGLYPH - from its static lifeless shape. It was so powerful that it came to me in the smaller dosage of 1/2 of its actual form - brought to consciousness from a REVELATION - one day I was prompted to go straight to a particular bookstore - straight to a particular book shelf - straight to a particular book - and turn straight to a particular page - and there it was - a hieroglyph containing my numinous symbol. Yeah, suddenly, my little symbol that had reached it end - it had evolved to its dynamic conclusion via my obsessive compulsion to draw it continuously, in that factory where I had mounted a drawing board. The chop saws and pneumatic staple guns and machines couldn't blast out the call's soft murmur traveling on a drifting gust through the blanket of dust. I had entered the magical world of myth - my personal myth - finally, I felt alive and the world was my oyster - Banner days and Hey Days. I have to bring this story to the world - it's the Return stage of a larger journey https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1538065671/drawing-my-ship-in

Tuesday, May 06, 2014

DRAWING MY SHIP IN

Kickstarter Campaign: To encourage a 1st pledge, I offered the Project Image itself as a Freebie to the 6th pledge, 6 because I was playing off the 6% some site - probably one of the many wanting me to hire them to promote my site - predicted my campaign had the chance of success. But, after no takers, I offered it to the 1st bidder. It is an autographed original. Wearing a Blue Ribbon, the artist whips out drawings on the assembly-line - this was the real thing - NOT the hands-off faux-factory of the cold andy warhol's so-called factory where he had others doing much of his work, allowing him to perpetuate the mystery under a wig and on cloud nine enjoying the escapism of heroin, like his cohorts, david bowie, john lennon, and a slew of other Manhattenites.

Saturday, May 03, 2014

DRAWING MY SHIP IN

On the 1st day of a Kickstarter Campaign, no pledges. Nor the 2nd day. So, I tried offering the P_roject Image as an Original Give-a-way to the 6th pledge, no takers. Then, I made it the 1st pledge, still no taker. So, I popped up another image, from an oil painting I donated to the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey for their annual fundraiser, the 3rd time I participated. This image today, May 3rd, is of an incarnation of myself as a child sitting at a lunch with a curator of drawings from the Whitney - we are sharing lunch in a promotion where Best in Show prize is "Lunch with a Curator." I'm painting my art story on the plates offered by the curator's assistant. A bit of soul food. My ship in the right corner comes in.

It seems Kickstarter may rely on friends support a little, or a lot. But, they are going to love your offerings because its from you, most often - that's support, albeit, a bit based on favoritism. So, what about critical attention by strangers looking for art of merit. That is the support this project needs. I need a show on a museum wall, with a little freedom to lay out the vision, like any other artist displayed in the thousands of museums. It's about an art journey that looked at from an over-all perspective has a composition complete with symmetry. Most art has a composition, but the journey itself, where is the composition in that, especially with a powerful symmetry. It's message is powerful and encouraging to anyone looking for the rewards of persevering. The closet pattern is the monomyth that Joseph Campbell outlines in his Hero's Journey, but that would make me seem like a hero, as much as an artist. Really, the only way I could be a hero is by my story benefiting others, then I could feel worthy of feeling I have contributed to humankind. But, stored in boxes, my story has little point.

Sunday, June 12, 2011

THE BOON OF STICKING WITH IT

This drawing "Lance-lot," is indicative of my drawing style that finally arrived, thousands of drawings later. Like other recent drawings, it carries with it the torch of the past, a dream that, although just sputtering along at times, finally blossomed. Never abandoning the journey after answering the Call's soft murmur in a noisy door plant in the mid-80's, I have finally developed a voice - even if it resembles fighting one's way out of a paper bag - it is mine and a testament that not giving up has its rewards. Still harboring the sense of urgency that attended my earliest efforts to tenaciously hold on and not put that little pen to rest in the fast-paced environment of an industrialized assembly-line. Don't give up!