Val Gal

As for more long term production goals I will be going for a plan of maintenance rather than growth. In others words I will concentrating on the certification of my already existing body of work (this is instead of concentrating on creating new work).    I have found a program to watermark my work rather easily.  My machine saves the document with a really long number. It seems to be a registration number which means that the work would be documented with this company, it is a Windows app and that is all I know about it.  So I don’t know what I should do. If I should maintain a file with the registration number or not. Meanwhile I can use the program rather easily to identify my work.  This brings me to another issue. Should I use my name or an email? I have to think about it.  Making a watermark the same as I am familiar with is something that to have to think of as well. To me a watermark is very transparent and actually takes up all the space of...

Financial Plan The financial situation still remains pretty much the same. So far no sales. Possible directions I will going in the foreseeable future involve the payment of small fees.  I have been checking out the art resources available to see what to do to upgrade the situation.  RAAV.Org REGROUPEMENT DES ARTISTES EN ARTS VISUELS DU QUEBEC has increased their membership fee to $120.00. InfoEntrerpreneurs said that they have a legal clinic but there is a fee of $65.00 an hour.  I have also contacted Yes (Montreal Youth employment Services). They have services available for entrepreneurs and artists of all ages but I must attend a workshop first.  Then I can access their legal and counselling clinics if I pay a onetime fee of $30.00.  Finally I noticed that I have a pretty thorough online backup of my photographs with Sony PlayStation but the line that says the name of the photographer is always left blank.  So I will be checking out how muc...

If  the quality of my artwork is established how do I defend myself and the fruit of my labor?  Artists create luxury goods.  These are goods that are to be marketed for exceptional places.  So they have exceptional demands on things like living arrangements.  They need large enough spaces or comfortable enough spaces to practice there are at all. For example in simple places, art for art’s sake is frowned upon and so is any artist who is just an artist.  Creating art which is just beautiful and does not help the day to day living is frowned upon. Artists in poor communities like myself are expected to find extra means to physically defend themselves.  For example I lived in a troubled, inner city neighborhood so that I could be close to the many cultural activities of downtown Montreal.  My house was poor and for most of the time there was a relatively adequate system of defense.  But the minute the presence of affluent competitors...

One of the issues that concern me at this time has to do about the time that my art begins to attract a good amount of attention and fetches a good price. Lets call it:  The Myth of the Avant Grade The point of Discovery An artist must create a body of work in order to be called an artist.  Thus a considerable amount of work exists before someone’s work is discovered to be valuable...  So the worth of a work of art, say a painting can change in an instant. One second the painting is worth nothing since the talented artist has yet to be discovered. It is the point of discovery that will change this undiscovered worthless body of work into something of value.   The Danger that comes with the point of discovery This presents a danger to the artist in a poor place and to the evaluators of his/her work. The art has barely been discovered and has not yet left the community hub.   A poor community is obscure so very few people know about it yet (even th...