I am particularly thinking today about the many times I asked him, pestered him with inquiries about his daily activities and what does an artist fill his day with? Do you just paint all day? Well, nothing could be further from the truth. Nothing could be further from the truth because as I am now learning through my own trials and experiences as an artist, those paintings don't just jump off the table and walk into peoples homes. There is a significant amount of work that goes into spreading the word, as I like to call it. Today we artists can not rely only on the agents of art to promote what we do, many of those artist are having struggles of their own. What we need to do is to embrace the cyber world of marketing and appraoch our art from a modern perspective. I am happy to say that because of the cyber world now available to us more people see art now than at any time in history. My uncle Jack was just beginning to enjoy that exposure (on top of the wonderfully succesful career he already enjoyed in the conventional art arena).
I am happy to discover the new ways and grab them with all my might and excitement. As I said to my dear uncle just hours before he passed; "I am proud to take up the torch that you carried".
Now, on with the race.
Robert McAffee