Val Gal

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...

I have a creative streak in me.  I find it releasing to create art.  And if I create art I will amass more objects.   How do I find an equilibrium between creating art and not amassing clutter? At the same time how do I amass art for sale(merchandise) and publicize my production?  my  As I write these words I begin to look once again to the artistic form of collage. I can start a line of collage made up of the photographs that i have in my collection.  In this way I will start to combine several images into one finished work.  And this will leave me with a different line of original work.  And less individual photographs. At the same time I can still market the photographs online and print them out individually to customers on demand.

I continue my new project called Art as a Present.  First of all I have started a facebook page for this purpose (go to https:// www.facebook.com/ArtasaPresent /).  I will be mailing Art Fabian Company Patrons and Friends  presents from a Company collection.  Maybe it will be an original artwork on a card through the regular mail.  Or perhaps a four by six inch photograph from the Valuable Gallery collection.  Some people will get an online work update from  the company that will feature a private selection of prints chosen for that month. It is not the most pleasant feeling to give out artwork but since I am not selling at least the works will circulate  instead of staying hidden.  Perhaps this feeling of unpleasantness is for the better.  I have all the documents from my parents estate comfortably installed in the Rose Studio. So there is really no reason to mail valuable works of art for no cost at all. (as a matter of fact I p...

Deciding the Weekend Work Plan. I had been  devoting Saturdays to the Valuable Gallery and Sundays to the Art Fabian Company Outreach.  The Outreach is a program in which I reach out to important patrons and friends in the community.  They could be local business of note or people on my birthday list.  The plan is that each month ten individuals are chosen and they are given a personally written letter by myself.  This is to establish good relations between myself and my Company and the community around us. I was surprised to see how late in the month we were when I was deciding what to schedule in for Saturday Gallery work.  I had also had a little trouble meeting the deadline for the January Outreach.  So I decided to start working on the February Outreach in the morning on Saturday.  I would see how far I had gotten and would decide the next move when I broke for lunch. Figuring out Birthday Text and Blueprints Its lucky that I did this...

Continuing the Gallery with a Steep Cut in Income I started the new year with a steep cut in my living income.  The question is how to continue working on the gallery without spending as much money as I have in the past.  As I pass the artwork in the Corridor Lobby I see quite a lot of work to do without even having to frame the picture. Just after breakfast today, I cleaned up the identity tags.  there were some from last exhibit and some had not been installed yet.  That done I changed the position of two exhibits that had been not properly placed. I have received a few beautiful tapestries that I want to hang up.  But they are still in storage.  I also have two frames that are not finished.  I have been waiting until my budget permits.  Also, I have been working on inventory with an app I found called ArtMoi.com.  One of my drawings would fit nicely into one of the frames.  So I will work on that today. How to continue working...

I found it hard to find a name for the Gallery.  The first name was the Inside Gallery because the Gallery is open only to those who have access to the site already.  My idea was to encourage people to try to bridge the gap.  To try to gain access into the second floor of this severe residence.  I thought this could be done by working with the order that runs the place and supporting their work and their mission.  In this way, I could have the support of the establishment and relative freedom to create Val Gal. But as time went on I had not much interest shown in the Inside Gallery. I thought, perhaps no one really wants to go inside. I mean why bother? I had several shows with the name Precious to underline the idea that art is important and valuable to everyday life. If we do not have art, we have reality only.  And we cannot step out of the  shackles of the grim or the poor.  With art we have a glimpse into the beautiful. Hence Precious. Al...

September 9, 2015 In the romantic novels the artist goes way up to his tiny attic on the very top of his house to create and be free.  Sometimes it has a great view of Paris.  Or sometimes the person is a writer who creates great novels and ideas. They both seal themselves from the rest of the world to do great things.  Well why not imitate?   I live in a woman's residence in a very small room. When I first arrived I imagined it as a womb.  A creative womb in which I would heal and rest and create great art.  I would sit on the bed cross yoga position with hands on my legs and look out the window and the blue sky. I would imagine I meditated.   I would imagine I was one with the blue sky. Well years have gone by and I no longer think of the room as a womb.  It became a small and impoverished cell for a while and then my imagination took over again.  I thought of it much like that attic. So now it is my studio in which I develop and fr...