So on a social media site that shall remain nameless i follow a lot of queer artists, everything from full on smut to some very nice fine art painters and everything in between. Over the years i’ve talked to a few of them about things so when i got a message from an artist about using a photo of mine as the base for something i was excited to help.
so excited that i didn’t fully pay attention to what he was saying, and i follow a lot of international artists so i didn’t think too much of the grammar.
so i said of course and we chatted out some details. I have a bunch of other things going on so i let them do their thing. eventually they said everything was approved and they were going to send me a check for an amount that was plausible for a starting artist, and more importantly high enough that it would have helped me out a lot, even sent me a tracking number. but then the day it was supposed to arrive the tracking number stopped working.
i didn’t think that much of it, but they messaged again later that week and said things were back on track and gave me a new tracking number … and this one arrived first thing in the morning. but as i looked at the generic looking check floating alone in an oversized express envelope i realized there was no way this was real. i googled the names of the businesses on the check and envelope and didn’t find anything reasureing. so after i messaged him that i was totally off to the bank i put the check back in it’s envelop and got on with what i was doing …
but … i love making stuff out of dumb shit and when i thought about the idea of shredding the check i settled on an idea. then i let it sit for a week because … well life .. and stuff
but then i got momentum and put a new blade in my knife and got to work. cutting was the easy part … thankfully i wasn’t going for a nice crisp clean edges, because weving the little strips into their little slots caused a lot of fraying. there is also one bit i kind of messed up … it’s subtle but it actually works really well.
So the title of the piece is for sure “$4870.68”
and in theory the price of the piece (which i’m getting a frame for when i’ve got the budget) is also $4870.68 because that would still make a huge difference in my life … but i’m also open to other offers …