After this morning’s fiasco, I got to thinking: “Why am I panicking about this? Why am I worried about the fiat value now out of the times I’ve sold mostly in XYZ currency?” And the answer was, maybe I was being selfish and this time was a wake up call. I don’t mind sharing with you all my feelings because I know that this is something I should be thinking about. It’s something I need to learn from if I ever want to keep myself going forward and trudging along.
My conclusion, and a test I’d like to run: pay what YOU want to pay on my works. This idea was inspired from the fact that opensea’s “Price drop” doesn’t actually drop the price, but, instead, puts the newest price as the main headline, and also inspired from a quick conversation with richard kim.
For a quick second before I go into the reasons as to why I want to try this method out, I want to answer Soy’s question about what these mean to me;
Every piece of art I’ve created, is my life. It is currently what I am dedicating a lot of my time to. I am taking in art, trying to recreate it, learning techniques and showing it to you guys. So, what exactly does it mean to me? Well, everything. Each piece I love in their own way. They, like the cliché goes, are my children. No matter what people think of them, no matter what anyone else’s feedback is, I enjoy looking at them because I was the one that created them. I put my blood sweat and tears into every single one of these.
As such, I shouldn’t be trying to compete with the art market. I should never have tried to do that. And I knew that in the back of my mind, but as always, and as humans, it never works out the way we think it does. And I won’t. I don’t want “Rare digital art” as my headline for my pieces. I want to give you something to be proud about buying, whether you’ve bought it at $1 or $300. I don’t want anyone to feel as though they were cheated out of money for whatever reason their purchase was or whatever price their purchase was.
I want to be transparent with you guys as to what the money is going towards and what I’m doing every time I make a sale: So far, I have been using 98% of the funds as minting funds and gifting. Some of it has been used for pleasure, such as helping purchase my mother’s Christmas gift of the t-shirt maker, but otherwise it has gone back into minting things and putting up on the markets. I might need to take a few more funds in the coming days for myself as I really, really want to move out of my parents’ place. I don’t feel as though I can progress much if I am “stuck in time” so to speak.
Most of these next sales will be going towards that moving out fund. Grabbing new gear to help make my art better, and getting a plane ticket to live with a friend out of state.
I hope you all forgive me when I break down. I recently have been getting better with not letting my emotions get to me, but sometimes I falter.
I love you all so much. You all are the best people anyone can ask for. ❤
Thank you all for reading,
I’ll see you when I see you.
