_that blurry feeling
_me & my favorite ex roommate that doesn’t get drunk enough.
photos by our creative director.
like most things in life when you don’t slow down to enjoy the process, it goes by a like blur. all the moments leading up to the acutal show was felt more exhausting than i expect. i didn’t really expect us to be in the venue still working an hour before we’re suppose to open the exhibit. obviously my expectation was a bit off and i still enjoy the hell out of myself at the show. The only thing I dreaded was having to get up the next day to remove the work after a one night showing. I think that was the hardest part to swallow in the deal. Sure, the work may get to be shown else where but some part of me also don’t even want to look at the work anymore. More importantly, i think the fact that we pull it off and suprised quite a few people was enough for me. I don’t think I heard enough how many times people where saying how ‘proud’ they were of us and what we’re doing. I know when we look back at this experience, it will be a defining moment of us. It was a taste of things to come if we continue to take care of our fundmentals. Although the turn out was probably great for an art gig, it was probably quite lower than what the curator was expecting. And because it’s a mostly a high volume type of business model, the low turn out probably meant that sales was going to be on the low end. I think within the next couple of weeks, we will see the valiation of the SF Faces business model. Do people really buy affordable art photos of themselves from unknown artist? I think when you cater to the types of people that buy photos of themselves, i feel that isn’t sufficient enough that the work can simply be just good. Annie Leibetoz can take a crap snapshot and people will buy it because she shot it. Obviously, it’s that that simple but i do feel that the perception of value in art is quite more than just the output itself. Hence, without participting in the game of art critics, galleries and all that shit, the career of the medicore artist will probably a painful one.
now that the exhibit is over, it’s time for us to shift into business mode. we finally made an offer to business development person and an engineer. i am pretty excited that the core team is finally coming into place. we’ve been trying to hire a biz dev person for the past year! Regardless, i feel pretty good about people we’re bringing on board because they are very excited about our vision and the culture that supports that vision. I think we even surprised ourselves a bit by offering the biz dev position to an older woman with two kids. We had been looking at mostly male candidates with a lot of energy and passion but i feel like the diversity of the organization will be more balanced with a more experienced female. Anyway, somehow it feels like the company is being reborn with the team being falling into place. It’s a very exciting time for us because we’re experincing quite a bit of valation in how we approach our business/art culture and it seems like it’s just the beginning! anyway, the more important thing now is returning to a more balanced life. back to harbin, back to yoga, back to doing playing raquet ball because i haven’t done it before.
Lastly, all the support of our friends meant a lot to us. Being able to share the experience with them made the exhibit so even more worthwhile on more subtle levels. we learn just how great it is to work with like minded people through this crazy project. i only wish was that she was here to share it with me.