Freedom Structured
Break Out by Jairinho *
In this blog I would like to spend a few words on how I release my work. And let me add, in this moment of time.
As a collector I have always loved and admired artists taking the freedom to use different mediums, styles and genres. As much as it may confuse an audience or even scare away collectors, you probably did not become an artist to be boxed in. Still most human minds love at least a little bit of structure. Mine is no exception. Let me emphasize that my mind shouldn’t matter to any artist, but it should when the artist is me.
Series
The most obvious way to add structure is to release your work in series. Now the freedom I am taking is to not work in consecutive series, but in parallel ones. This gives me quite some freedom in capturing what I love, without the constraints of one particular series and time frames. Beauty can present itself at any moment. Once captured, I would not want to shelve it for when one series is done. But work with it here and now.
Series can either be themed or have a certain style or genre. Currently my main series are:
L’Abstract: Monochrome glimpses
The Adoption files
Not a Manual
The first 2 run on Exchange.art and the 3rd on Mallow.art. I call these my main series as there is the Stand Alone Together and the Drops of Gratitude series. In the former I have minted my first pieces ever, just for the sake of eternalizing them on the blockchain. Not necessarily to list or sell. But it can also function as a container for work that wouldn’t fit current series. And in the Drops of Gratitude series I mint exactly that: Art drops for collectors or bidders.
The Jeet Kune Do of art
At this point I am pretty sure none of these main series will be very very large. And more series will follow not too long from now. Just to keep things dynamic for myself as an artist. Similar to the way I acquire pieces as a collector.
So in releasing my art I create a pretty much boundary free space. Extend my freedom to the point where I can release an abstract work in Not a Manual, but not cross a (personally drawn) line where full color pieces appear in Monochrome glimpses. As much as freedom works for me in creating, so do limitations. Within limits, of course.
* I have not used one of my own pieces as featured image here. But one by Jairinho. Why? Because Break Out represents Freedom and breaking out of boxes