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Why some people feel like they belong where they have been born, others stay forever uprooted or find their true home in some far away land? A rationalist would say it's all in the mind. I am not a rationalist. I didn't feel much belonging in my native land, as soon as I encountered authorities and bureaucracy I was terrified for life. Now that land is shrouded in darkness. I cannot imagine how people can live there. I don't know if I ever can go back. I wonder if I, going forward, ever settle, properly, somewhere...

Two old artworks from imagination. A home which flies far above the land and a house in the mountains, engulfed in a thunderstorm...

Do you belong where you live?

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I've accidentally ended up at an online business networking today. Never felt more "fish out of water" in my life. I tried to attend those meetings in the past because, well, being an artist is being a business person, right? I even did a very expensive online art business course. I hear repeatedly that original art is a luxury and I should aim at super rich. The problem is I never befriended one in this life. I don't know if I like them.

I am not anti profit or anything like that. But I am not your usual "here to milk my ideal customer" networking apparition. If anyone has seen "Stalker" by Tarkovsky, that's, for me, about a true artist. He takes people to an otherworld or even an underworld dowsing a path between unknown and unthinkable. It's a very risky, messy and personal business.

Alas, I know people who like what I am doing but they are not the ones who buy luxury goods. I don't want to price my artworks too cheap (so people care for them), but if they don't have enough money, maybe some kind of partial barter will work? For example, they may produce, make, grow something I may want, or have a spare room /cottage to stay at for a few days, or they are able to take me somewhere I cannot go by public transport, or give me some lessons like crafts, languages, cooking, dowsing, driving, etc. Or just tell me a story... Experiences are the most valuable in life. Personal connection is what matters.

What do you think? Could this potentially work?

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The Real HAY Festival 2024 | Llanidloes, Mid Wales

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I knew for years that I liked to create a feeling of otherness or otherworldliness with all my artwork, but why? I think this is to do with giving me and the people who like my art a sense of freedom. When you are in another world, you do not need to keep up with the Joneses as there are none. Not neighbours, not family, not colleagues. No personal history in the past or promises in the future. You are free to create any story you crave, looking at that picture. When you wish, you can change the narrative. You can just be yourself, freely.

This is a digital artwork available as prints.

#art #meaning #flying #angel #freedom #independence #engel #space #print

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