Let me tell you - the cards look like POOP! BUT it's an idea and I think I am going to still do this but will have Shutterfly.com handle the printing. The insides will be blank. The first set I will be keeping for myself. Cost would be about the same when you factor in how much paper and ink costs.
Another thing is there is a new artist on the wall at Starbucks. Well, actually I have seen this artist show there before. But anyway - I think the artist is a "she" - so I will write "she" here as I discuss my delimma.
She is a fabulous photographer. Her show is all stuff from around Fort Worth (there are noticeable landmarks - the Bass Hall Angels, the round bridge at the FWBG, etc - all of which I have photographed as well - just like thousands of other people with cameras).
The 3 items from FtW that I will be showing are not noticeably "Fort Worth" - well, maybe "Coffee Break" but it's pretty annonymous... and if you know the Modern Museum at all from the inside... you'll recognize the stairs, but I doubt you'd know unless I told you (like I just did). The other 3 or 4 I will be showing are all Germany but even those are vague except for a sign hanging in an alley way that is written in German but you have to get really close to make it out.
Anyway, it is obvious I will be showing my amateur-out-of-focus stuff after a professional and that is freaking me out a bit - enough to pull it all and not show at all. I've already told friends, family, and strangers about the show so... there is no turning back. This is what other snow-boarders must feel like when they have to go AFTER Shaun White in competition. "What's the point?" Ya know? (and I have no idea why I used him as an example as I have never seen him in action.)
She also has 2 11x14 prints in 16x20 (or so) frames. All of mine are 8x10 in 11x14 frames (double white matted). They look good but now I fear they are all too small. I am not going to change this or it might look like I am copying her (which in a way - I would be) and then it would also look like she has new prints to show instead of an artist change on the wall. If I ever do this again, I will add a bit of variety. Right now, I did want them all the same size because all of the photos I have framed right now are hanging in my dining room - straight across in matching frames... it LOOKS like a gallery which is the way I want my dining room to look.
Well, I am nervous. April 9th is fast approaching.
It's okay for yours to look different than hers. You have different expressions of your view of the world. Try not (even though it's your nature) to make it a competition.
ReplyDeleteSome people will get it and some won't it's the nature of anything that's open to interpretation. Just keep being you, and putting that out there.