Renee De Four
@reneedefour
Renee De Four
The Simple Life: How to Find Your "ENOUGH"
youtube.comWhat artists NEED to do is work on their craft, build a body of work, and show that work to people. And there are better options for showing your work than social media. Having a website is a good start. Doing PR and having an email list is even better.
No, Artists Don't Need Social Media
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When we buy a product, we essentially āhireā it to help us do a job. If it does the job well, the next time weāre confronted with the same job, we tend to hire that product again. And if it does a crummy job, we āfireā it and look for an alternative. (Weāre using the word āproductā here as shorthand for any solution that companies can sell
Meet the woman who lives without money: āI feel more secure than when I was earningā
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The best marketing comes from you simply making your art and sharing it. In ways that light you up and provide value to other people. Thereās no need for sleazy tactics. Sharing our art, sharing our values and philosophy and stories, can be PART of our art.
I'm returning to Substack
š Agnes Martin - My Rabbit Hole of Exploration
This is where my journey with Agnes Martin begins - chapter 4, part 3 of A Simpler Life titled āvoluntary povertyā.
The first time I read this, I was at a loss for words. How can someone live like this? I suppose a better question is, what did Agnes Martin realize or see that most of us donāt? Somehow, she was able to see that these fleeting forms of pleasure donāt bring happiness anyway, like Rupert (Spira) says.
Something else fulfilled her and it wasnāt to be found in acquiring material objects.
Personally, I know these things donāt bring happiness, certainly not in and of themselves. Iāve known this for years yet I still fall back into these cycles of materialistic consumption. I must pay more attention to the moment that my awareness shifts from the internal to external.
I need to look closer and see, did my pattern put this system, this reality, this task, this project, this expectation in place? Did this come from my pattern or come from my higher self?