 Hey everyone, so yeah, there's is a question from Janine Kersiner. She's an artist and Hi, Janine. I know I've seen your name for a long time. It's Thanks for Chatting with us. So so here's Janine's question and then Rebecca's gonna say what she thinks I'll just try and summarize the question. So when you're an artist So it's good to have your own style your own recognizable type of art So when people see it, they know that it's yours and then you have a group of work, right? But also sometimes you like to try all different things so you have old work That's you know in Janine's case. It's oil paintings and some felt stuff You're saying But the question is should you eliminate your older works from your website and just focus on you know Your thing or should you continue to show it and try and sell work that doesn't necessarily fit into your group Your current style so what do you think Rebecca? I Agree that when if you're trying to sell work to an audience, you know You're the whole point is to sell your work Then I think that the audience is looking for a cohesive body of work When they see a cohesive body of work this they in their mind They think okay, this person's legit. This is what they do and I am buying into that whatever that is As an artist you may want to do different things and it sounds like that's what you need to say And I feel like in that instant you need an alias Interesting yeah, cuz like I go through that a lot where I sort of have like my like adult looking art And then I like to do kids stuff. I like to do brightly colored acrylics and put it in the kids room or whatever It's all my work, but it Functions differently and it looks very different and so I've often thought that if I were to sell those I would sell one under, you know, Rebecca Zach and the other one under like my nickname Becksack or something like that just to differentiate That's my idea. Okay. That's an interesting idea my thoughts are Are you there's the answer is yes like yes Put your old works on the website. Yes, don't put your own works on the website like just do anything just make a lot of art and And and share it and make websites and post things and change things and then make more art and just keep doing things That's my answer. So I don't know if there's a right or wrong answer here To be honest. I have a point on that actually, okay? Never why I never call your old artwork old. Okay, don't call it vintage or call it retro or call it like Something like that that sounds a little bit more Legit like instead of saying like well, this is the stuff that didn't sell do you want it? Yeah, classic. Yeah. Yes. And another thing is if you have people that are interested in your work and you have their contact You can invite by invitation only those people to come to an invite-only Art show and you'll stage this and you'll put up a bunch of those works and you'll tell them in the invitation that there will be newer and older pieces or you know, whatever like Whatever like vintage pieces or however you want to frame that but you tell them that there's gonna be Or one of a kind pieces or experimental work something that'll Peak their interest and you invite them and that in that way You can bring value to the old stuff that didn't sell because you're inviting just the select group of people and they feel You know They feel special Another good idea And what I what I'm thinking now is I know for example Picasso he had is the blue period So this time of his life where he just used blue a lot and I think like so Janine and Rebecca and me like in 10 years We're gonna be different people with different ideas and different styles And so it maybe you can think about dividing your work into like group periods groups or something yeah And to that point never underestimate the value of a narrative telling a story. Yeah, if you People often don't know if art is good. Like you have to tell them it's good and why it's good that's why artist statements are so powerful and unnecessary and I know that when we've had art shows around here I will often talk to people about the piece that they're looking at to bring narrative to it to Tell them like where the idea came from the context in which I Made it or you made it or whatever and if if you can tell them a story then they can tell that story to other people When they have friends over at their house and your artist hanging on their wall and really like that's what they're looking for They're looking for a story Okay Okay, if anyone has any other questions or wants to talk through an idea with artists Yeah, ask the artist this could be fun. What's this behind you? Oh, this is what I'm work This is my my a big piece of work. Oh a question. Art is never old because it's creative experience We grow and change each person will decide how it connects. Yes. Good point great Thomas. Good point. Okay Talk to you later. Bye everyone. Thank you