15 days to go…. and it’s the same routine – wake up, check if there are any other backers, go to work, check again at the earliest possible chance, come home, check again, read the flurry of suggestions and ideas from the rest of the group ( hmmm…well, some of them anyway ) on how to get more backers, check again…. sigh.
In desperation I went through my LinkedIn contacts (something I don’t even look at normally, as I find it a complete waste of time) and sent out a ‘please back us’ message. Within ten mins, I got an email back from an artist stating ‘No, I won’t back you, but I would like to be in the exhibition’. Er – work on your correspondence technique matey!
24 backers and a quarter of the money raised for our crowdfunding project is not bad at all – and I’m equally impressed that there are so many ‘Artist talking’ bloggers backing us (nice to see artist supporting each other!) But we still have a way to go.
Needless to say, my own work has taken a complete back burner.
Nothing to do with the crowdfunding obsession – just that occasional blip I get when that ‘Why am I doing this?’ wave washes over me. I think it started when I picked up my installation from the Chapel Gallery. I know its normal to feel a little deflated after an exhibition – all of that intense work that you’ve put in, a few weeks of the ‘high’ you experience when you have that huge sense of achievement, and then …..nothing.
I dumped the boxes in my spare room, which doubles as a studio, storage space and occasional sleeping room for visitors and thought – ‘I don’t have the room for all this stuff!’
Need more space…..need more time…..need more money!
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