Kieran Rundle Late Chapter 3 Reflection

This chapter made me think about the future, something I’ve been doing a lot since senior year started. What are my goals? Why do I want that? I was listening to a book review podcast the other day and someone said “goals are too binding, I prefer to have intentions.” Do I even have goals in my artwork?

Reading about other places for artwork that museums like nonprofits or schools was brilliant. Someone submitted and is making work for hospital walls and dentist waiting rooms and I bet it makes them happy. When reading this I also wondered about a theme for my art. I’m all over the place in my photography. I was writing a statement for senior show and came up with the idea that I am a storyteller. In whatever way I perform my pictures, there is a narrative within them. It was nice of Schwartz to also outline questions to consider, like commission, before signing on with a gallery contract and providing an idea of what a reasonable price will be. When spending money to submit work to places looking up whether the success would be worth the literal cost of failure is difficult. Online pros and cons are specifically applicable today in the era of COVID19. More galleries are having online exhibitions. Personally I don’t find that nearly as satisfying but it is great for recognition. Publishing online yourself typically only works if you’ve managed to build a fanbase- something I’m not sure how to do since hashtags on instagram are often lost among the many.

Something I’ve always liked were publications. With both my creative writing and art I’ve always had this fantasy of walking through a Barnes and Noble (it used to be a Borders but the internet killed that dream) bookstore and amongst all the books, seeing my name. It would have that new book smell and the pages would be all white and crisp in the way that only untouched books in store shelves are. 

In the chapter Schwartz outlined what you need for both a typical book and an artist book publication which I really appreciated as well.