Psychic Fair Success and Process

Anatomy of a Buy

Picture, artwork, now hanging on the wall? Moved a certain somebody. Moved her to the point of dragging out a piece of plastic and saying, “I’ll figure out how to get it home.”

(Hint: it traveled in my suitcase.)

It’s a photo transfer. I talked with the artist. Aquarius. Worked similar venues to what I’ve worked, and that was, indeed, at an art show of sorts. Bazaar.

“The process is to take a photo, print it on a t-shirt transfer sheet then put that onto the aluminum plate…”

Which was then mounted to another, red in this case, backing platter of sorts. As an artist, the process intrigued me. The artist herself was kind enough to explain the whole process she used, in detail, along with notices of where she’ll be next, Old Pecan Street Fair in Austin, King William in San Antonio, &c.

There was transparency in her process, as she stood there, explaining how to make artwork like hers.

Would I try it? Not even. That was her process, in part, quite artistic, and in part, a weird, winding road that I don’t think I’ll follow. As an Aquarius, it was even more bizarre because it used high tech digital camera images and combined that with parts that didn’t seem to fit, like t-shirt printing transfers. Plus metal — aluminum — “canvas” as part of the media.

Mixed media? That might be the name. The elements were all part of the piece. My image, from a phone camera doesn’t do it justice as the piece isn’t “flat” so much as textured and layered. I don’t reckon that many people go to the office supply warehouse store to find artistic inspiration.

The artist’s transparency is what reminded me of an earlier project, just now starting to roll out.

As I looked over the earliest (digital) “proofs,” I realized that the volume of the work — a collaboration — easily transcends its original, somewhat limited target.

It’s about process. It’s about how to get engaged in a process that produces replicable results.

Good stuff. I might be a joint author, but I was impressed. Reminded me of exactly what that one artist was doing, the Aquarius woman, and how she made a sale, following the exact same process outlined in Psychic Fair Success.