Welcome Back! Forgive me as I babble, because we all know its been a long while since I posted!
I haven’t been anywhere in particular I’m just busy being wife, house care taker, mom, teacher, and finally finding time to be an artist once again.
I’ve been silently playing with various materials in the background, some ideas are wonderful others have been a great learning curve. Like my life, art is ever changing. I am living in a new province, town, and have another child, #3, and its covid19 in the year 2020!!! I’m sure you can relate to the ever changing environment!
However with all of that going on I’m still finding pockets of time to create new and interesting items to add to my art collection. I’ve also been applying for online crafters markets, although I have had very little luck getting in. I guess that’s the topic of today’s post, dealing with rejection and the revolving door of change.
Rejection is hard and can be crippling at the best of times, but 2020 has moved us to online and less in person sales. This is a huge challenge for me, the always experimenting artist. In person has always been how my work shows best. Plus I get to talk about the process and all those wonderful ways an art work is made. I’m sure you can relate!
So moving to an online website, or Etsy in my case, is a huge challenge! Documenting and write ups have always been one of my weakest points, in my opinion, but nothing like being forced to move online to help clear that up. Am I right!
I feel like I’m slowly getting better and applying for online markets has pushed me to find ways of getting better. I may have been rejected from a few markets, but its given me a chance to really get my self online, so I am thankful for that.
At first I was crushed. I’ve been working hard and I really wanted to be apart of the holiday markets this year. I thought I was so ready to get my groove back and get out there. So you could probably image how bummed I was when the ‘sorry you have not been selected’ emails started to show up.
After a few days to let that sink in and build a game plan. I revisited my art on and off line, began to redocument, redo write ups. Now I’m feeling better about my online presence, I’m no pro and I’m always revisiting and updating, but I am so thankful for the push.
I also had a chance to look at the vendors that did get into some of those markets thatbsaid no to me, and I can see why I was not selected to participate. It’s not that my work is lacking in quality, it’s simply because my art did not fit with the theme of the show, or the type of clientele they are reaching out to. So that helped me be more ok with not being apart of those holiday markets.
I guess what I’m saying here is it’s ok to feel soar about not getting into a show. It gives us a chance to self reflect, reassess, and push forward. One art work or experiment at a time, reminds us to keep up the practice, because at the end of the day it sure feels good to be creating!
I’ve been revamping my Esty store, visit if you like, and if you wanna share your thoughts do that to, because after all that’s how we learn.
Trina Ganson 
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