Oh I’m full in on Steemit, Blurt and Ecency as excellent (someday lucrative) social media platforms. The people here are more engaging than the pinkie lifters at a billionaire’s tea party (Facebook and Instagram). I give away art because it has been impossible for me to put a price on something that nobody knows they need. If they’ll take my work for free, and tell me they’ll show it, then it’s a win for both parties. Last week @jompiy, as the Camden Market Free Art Man, watched 50 people queue up across the street. He thinks they might have been standing in line for orange juice. Not a single person was curious enough to break out to find out. That’s a new expression in the human genome. I think artists are capable of curing some of the psycho-cultural auto-immune diseases that flourish today. Someone or something should since religion begrudgingly loosened its grip on mobile populations. Either way, advertism brings people back, and we re-connect. I get more from art if it’s wanted. There is the obsession of making it, of course, but the thrill of a stranger liking it enough to hang it in a room for more people to see, is a touch of communion that an endless supply of orange juice in the fridge could never match.
I trust that more than half the people I connected with last Friday will tell our story with a single painting better than it could while stacked in a box for posterity. I simply have too much work to leave that burden on my children to feel guilty about when I’m deceased.
Now, if there is a person out there wanting to buy a Throop painting(s) to free me for travel to feed my enthusiasm and curiosity, then I’m all in for business:)