Sixty People
Finished reading Dan Blank’s Be The Gateway last night. Immediately flagged it as a book to re-read and annotate when I’ve got a little more time up my sleeve, as it’s one of the more clear-headed tomes out there about art and being on the internet. One of the more resonant moments: Blank is talking about working with artists/writers get down on having a small email list, or number of social media followers, and immediately contextualises it against his experience working as a young artist in the nineties: Having had sixty people validate this work would have made a huge difference in my quest to stop dabbling and really try to share my work in a bigger way. Having a single person who encouraged me would have meant the world to me. Sixty would have made me double down on my art, instead of letting it languish. In these years, I tried many other creative projects as well. I had
