I spend many of my days working on discrete activities. Carve this layer, print the next color, build a frame… Like most things in life, I find it difficult to assess on any given day whether I am going in the right direction or not. I am always struck at the similarities between being an artist and gambling. On a few golden days, an acceptance arrives in my email, or a new collector takes a linocut home. But the vast majority of days the activities go on without reward or comment.
Evaluation is a way of getting an overall picture of how I am doing. For the curious, here are the things I will be evaluating this year… Continue reading “Evaluating my artist year”