Somethings been bothering me for a while now. My cards are different... The cards I do are so linked to what I write that they aren't just the artwork but more a sum of several parts.
The images click with me as emotions not just pictures. When I post or list them I always include the emotion as text. When people look at them I think they may be attracted to the image but it's the emotion that chimes for them.
I think people like them but I think it's more the whole experience of the emotion than the card itself. I've had good and bad feelings about this. Does that make me an artist? Or a writer? Or really not enough at either to be good enough to consider myself one without the other?
I think what's happening is that they are just different. They aren't just the cards or just the words but a compliation of the two. Like a movie would be just pictures moving across a screen without the emotion of words. I've decided I'm fine with it and decided to call them something different from now on.
I've been making ACEO cards since mid- 1997 and have always considered what I wrote as part of the card. The emotion seemed almost as important as the image and that made them different from the other cards I'd seen. When I sold the cards I sent along a letter with the original auction text plus anything else I wanted to explain about the image.
My auctions for cards became more of a package including the card and the letter. Recently I decided I needed to call them something else... to link what I did with ACEO's while still showing they were different, not just pictures. So I came up with ac-Emo. It seemed to suit the images, the words...the feelings very well.
I was reading an outsider art magazine the other day in Borders and yet again - I hate the artist pictures they include. There doesn't seem to be even a shred of an attempt to put dignity in the images of these people. The fact that these people look dirty, poverty-stricken, undignified and frequently stark raving crazy seems to be a bonus to buyers of outsider art. Its a shame and a sad commentary.
I'm including a picture of myself... I can't help it.
My blog called THE ARTIST IN THE MIRROR can be seen at http://tracyreinhardt.blogspot.com/
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