10th Anniversary

The Diamond Anniversary, well well well, haven’t we come a long way since that first time I took a brush to the base of an architectural model in a design class back in college. I got a job, got fired, worked freelance, tried to be an artist, went back to the company that fired me then quit to become a real artist. Wow, if only I could go back and tell that guy sitting in that cubicle listening to the audio book, Think And Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, that it would all somehow work out.

Well, to start, since we had our first real art show in November, I guess our real anniversary isn’t till then, but we already lined up a solo show at Art SA which is our gallery in our home town. Out of the 10 years we have been making, showing and selling art about 7 of them have been there, so it only makes since to be there celebrating this.

So in honor of our 10th Anniversary of making art I am going to do a series of 10 pieces in which each one shows a different style I have experimented with along the way. I can already see them on the wall. Over the past 10 years I have done quite a bit of different styles in different looks. In a few of the early shows I’ve done I got comments about it, like once I had 7 pieces up at a video store and some guy asked if they were school works and if each piece was a different lesson. But it taught me about having a consistent and cohesive body of work. However, lucky for you, I went through that so I can share it with you. So now I gotta get on that and make em.

I know I’m still a baby in this art world, however, I know I am not promised another 10 years, so I want to take this opportunity to blow my 10th anniversary out of proportion. But it does make me wonder if any other artist has pulled something off like this or even cared about mile stones such as these?

Did you folks do anything special for your 1st year, 5 year, 10 year, 30 year anniversary? Did you even notice it was passing you by?