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Speaking of craft fairs and politics ...

Can you imagine, setting up your booth to sell art or quilts or whatever, then getting a surprise pepper spray bath and potentially being abducted/assaulted by lawless armed goons? The nice neighbor who helped you with your tent gets dragged off. Your product reeks of chemicals - ruined. Your little business and hopes for profit that day - crushed. Customers avoid the markets.

Insane. It could happen anywhere.

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This guy's AI views align with mine. I think true handmade art in various forms will become more attractive in contrast to AI. There will always be customers for cheaper mass manufactured product, but it is a race to the bottom that AI gen slop will win. It isn't a market/customer worth competing over anymore.

Artists would be smart to push their creativity toward unique or small batch product. It's a handmade renaissance, potentially. #arttalk #artbusiness #handmade

https://youtu.be/r_YptcDAfWM

Fake Van Gogh Village: Painting 100,000 Replica Masterpieces (Fake Art Documentary) | Real Stories

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The philosophy behind my art business is simple:

I will only sell things I enjoy creating and/or using.

It's this way for two reasons:

- If they don't sell, then I at least get some use out of them, so they're not doomed to landfill

- If they do sell, then I would have to make more of that thing. So, it would really suck if I don't enjoy what I'm working on.

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Well, I just unsubscribed from yet another artist who has transitioned from artist to career advice guru.

I get it—it’s hard to promote one’s art, and artists have been told one should pivot to including any skills one does have in addition to one’s creativity.

But that’s *in addition* not *replace*.

I only know a few artists deft enough to straddle those two very different worlds, because it’s a balancing act. They are each silos requiring different skillsets, both of which are full-time, almost mutually exclusive jobs.

Oy, I liked their walk-through vids.<sigh> Oh well.

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