Tuesday 23 M 21
Time out for a fast update relative to mid-course corrections. Already busy this morning as the WWAF is now moving into the two week planning window. Being on the 'wait list' is approaching levels of anxiety not unexpected but manageable.
HOW IS THIS EFFECTING LIFE AS YOU KNOW IT?
That is a surprising question and I am impressed, deeply touched and moved by your sudden insight and sensitivity.
Planning continues but confidence and hope are dropping measurably. Units of decline are abstract and just a realistic ‘feeling’ but nonetheless life and the Planning goes on like the call will come.
You must and have to OR else resign, make the decision yourself and then IF they call, accept the larger disappointment AND embarrassment. Or so I am thinking.
Yesterday I drove to ProPanels (in Dallas) and learned that the fine art display panels will not be an issue.
They have inventory, I could call and when I got there the panels would be ready for pickup.
Mark and David have their act together and explained exactly why it is not a huge problem for them at this time. They said they could accommodate a 10 x 10 OR a 10 X 20 tent set-up so I am THINKING a measure of flexibility on my side MAY help the cause.
On the way home I reserved a van for the weekend of the show. Austin at Capps in Plano understood the circumstances and conditions and the value of planning contingencies so I am set with getting things to the site or venue should I need to.
Now all I can do is work, build the ‘fine art’ inventory forgetting for now the ‘smalls’ and or ‘commodity items’ favored for the different type of shows. I forgot to mention hope.
WHAT ABOUT PRAYING? ARE YOU FORGETTING TO PRAY ?
Uh, no. This is NOT the type of thing one ‘PRAYS’ for. God will influence the outcome and whatever happens guess what?
WHAT?
It happens for the best AND for a reason AND it means something BETTER will develop DIRECTLY as a result. I may not understand the decision, nor will I complain or protest but it is small and minor in the Grand Scheme of life. Sometimes one must be prepared to accept such mysteries.
SUCH AS … ?
IDK. Maybe the weather will be bad.
Maybe I will get into a better show OR maybe my work still isn’t at a level where it would sell there. So many things could happen that it isn’t even worth the time spent speculating.
The next show latter in the year might be a better fit, a better market for my work nearer the coast. Coastal is now ‘in’ and one COULD easily label my work ‘coastal’ in nature.
IN OTHER NEWS, slogging thru Grant's memoirs as time allows and for the occasional break.
This might be the best book I have ever read because the words are his, edited by a young Mark Twain and lite on the fluff and bullshit. I am right about at the half-way mark in pages and the automatic renewal for the THIRD time is about to kick in.
General Sherman with Federal troops have just started moving on Atlanta and the final push of the campaign. Good stuff written in the style of the day and very similar to John L Stephens as ‘very readable.’
That’s enough for now.
The bowels are steady and returned to good working order.
The seasons are changing with cooler nights, the days warm up slowly and the increased daylight is a bonus and a welcomed joy.
Inside the numbers are 16 both on the upper deck and 15 lower. Outside air temperature must be 8 or 9 and surely below 10 all in °C of course.
Expect some images here as projets artistiques get finished.
