Art is boundless, as open as the artist.

It’s a dialogue, isn’t it? Between viewer and artist? And at the same time, it’s an internal monologue expressed. It is the artist’s thoughts, skills, questions, poured into a single expression with no feedback outside of the media used.

My Job is one in which I use my technical ability to create art, and I get compensated for each piece I produce. I teach people how to be successful at the same thing. At work I am constantly thinking about the viewer. Art at work MUST be accepted in order to be successful.

At home, in my creative space, a different story unfolds. I can look how I want, sit how I want, drink what I want, listen to whatever sounds I choose. There is no customer feedback on the spot.

Now I’ve come to a point almost exactly in the middle — I have begun to consider selling work I create at home, mainly because so much of it has stacked up over the years. My concern is that the purity of the process will be contaminated when I open my work up to being sold. Will I start to make artistic decisions based on possible sales interest? Will I be aware of that process or would it happen naturally, without my awareness? If I explore the path of sales, how long before I lose what pleases me about creating art?