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I Don't Want to Sell My Work

I was talking to someone the other day

Telling them about how I am going to start moving into an art studio shared with 2 other people

He asked what is the rent

I told him

He said Damn that cheap! You can get that easy from selling just one of your paintings!

I said yeahhhhh, it is , it is….yeah sell one of my paintings…

The conversation came to a lull


Later I was cleaning my studio/bedrooom

And randomly I said,

“BUT I DONT WANNA SELL MY PAINTINGS!”


Pretty late reaction


But yeah

I dont want to

I dont think thats the point of my paintings

Its not to make something to sell

Its not for anyone else to enjoy or see

But myself


These paintings are for me for my eyes

They are for me to be able to reflect on my life


These paintings also speak to each other

If I were to separate them

They wouldn’t be able to

Their message to stronger together.


They are not stand alone pieces.

They are all in relation to each other

Just like you can’t separate one event in your life from everything else or an aspect of you personality

Liking taking a Jenga piece out

It all is related

Taking a stone out of the arch

It won’t be an arch


It can’t stand without the other peices next to it


Its so automatic for people to assume that that is the point

its that capitalistic mindset

So automatic, even I am guilty of it I bet

For the skill to be commiditized

I dont want to turn this into a commodity

I never did

I dont see myself selling my paintings

I cannot separate myself from them. Or them from each other.

It doesn’t make sense to me.


The next quesiton:

Then how will I make. money?

 considering i spend hours and hours on my paintings??


well I find jobs along the way...

the point of this life is to live it how I want

making art, finding and building community,

and healing to become the best version of me

gaining wisdom...

I will find ways to keep this up along the way.



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