{"id":4500,"date":"2014-04-25T14:10:19","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T14:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/?p=4500"},"modified":"2014-04-24T11:00:54","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T11:00:54","slug":"more-henry-and-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/?p=4500","title":{"rendered":"More of Henry and me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/econest.blogspot.com\/2013\/03\/my-simple-life-go-to-woods.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4503\" alt=\"Thoreau_Zitat\" src=\"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Thoreau_Zitat.jpg\" width=\"343\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Thoreau_Zitat.jpg 343w, https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Thoreau_Zitat-300x293.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 343px) 100vw, 343px\" \/><\/a>After a couple years in the working world, when I decided to return to college and enter graduate school to study literature in the 70s, I read\u00a0<i>Walden<\/i>. It has always struck me as an essential book for anyone attempting to leave behind commonplace assumptions\u2014the sort of wisdom that advises you to focus on earning money, gaining power, being well-known, contributing to society, and so on\u2014and simply spend a couple years doing nothing but being aware of life. (Of course, if you get married and have children, all the commonplace wisdom kicks into gear, which is what happened to me.) Granted, Thoreau found a more direct way to \u201cbe aware of life\u201d than by studying what people had written\u00a0<i>about<\/i>\u00a0life, yet Walden is full of quotes, so I imagine his two years spent doing what most people would consider nothing was occupied with a fair amount of reading. Hence,\u00a0<i>Walden<\/i>\u00a0is a reasonable book to read before driving to Illinois to study Melville, instead. (I was still thinking fondly of you, though, Henry.)<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve always been pleased by the fact that, early on, Thoreau shared his budget with his reader. It wasn\u2019t really a budget, but closer to the equivalent of a receipt from Home Depot, detailing how much he spent on the little house (a room more than a house) he built for himself at the edge of the pond. I don\u2019t know how much, in current terms, a dollar was worth in 1850, back before the Civil War began, but inflation aside, his investment sounds pretty reasonable:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u00a0\u00a0Boards, &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; $8.03\u00bd, mostly shanty boards.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u00a0\u00a0Refuse shingles for roof and sides,\u00a0\u00a04.00<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u00a0\u00a0Laths, &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. 1.25<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u00a0\u00a0Two second-hand windows with glass, &#8230; 2.43<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u00a0\u00a0One thousand old bricks, &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; 4.00<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u00a0\u00a0Two casks of lime, &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. 2.40\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0That was high.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u00a0\u00a0Hair, &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; 0.31\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0More than I needed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u00a0\u00a0Mantle-tree iron, &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; 0.15<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u00a0\u00a0Nails, &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. 3.90<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u00a0\u00a0Hinges and screws, &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. 0.14<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u00a0\u00a0Latch, &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. 0.10<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u00a0\u00a0Chalk, &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. 0.01<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u00a0 Transportation, &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. 1.40\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I carried a good part on my back.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u00a0\u00a0<strong>In all, &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; $28.12\u00bd<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">These are all the materials, excepting the timber, stones, and sand, which I claimed by squatter&#8217;s right. I have also a small woodshed adjoining, made chiefly of the stuff which was left after building the house.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I intend to build me a house which will surpass any on the main street in Concord in grandeur and luxury, as soon as it pleases me as much and will cost me no more than my present one.<\/p>\n<p>A house for $28. I think you might have gotten a foreclosed underwater house at auction in Detroit for that in 2009, but I don&#8217;t think I could build even a Lego version of Henry David&#8217;s home on that budget now. I&#8217;m not sure it would pay for a movie for two, if you require popcorn.<!--moreMORE-->I love the asides. He bought more hair than he needed (for a shirt maybe?), and he kept his transportation costs low by carrying much of his future house to the pond himself turtle style. The final assertion that, as soon as it pleases him, he will build the equivalent of a McMansion from bustling downtown Concord, and it won\u2019t cost him a penny more than his current shanty\u2014this is typical Thoreau, where you can\u2019t tell if he\u2019s actually figured out a source for free stolen rafters or that he\u2019ll simply see his humble abode for what it is, as effective as a mansion for confronting the best life can offer, directly, which he proceeds to do and recount in his book. \u201cThe best life can offer\u201d meaning simply learning how to see what\u2019s always been there around him in the smallest aspects of the natural world, and the way in which his sustained attention to it was a form of alchemy, revealing something like spiritual gold in what he might have thought was just a stagnant little backwoods body of water. I suspect this better house he promised he would be able to build, as if he were turning water into wine, was the book he published. The citizens of Concord, and the world for that matter, were free to come and go inside\u00a0<i>that<\/i>\u00a0new house whenever they liked, and still are.<\/p>\n<p>For me, this remains a model for how and why art gets made. As an act of paying sustained attention to what\u2019s there and building some sort of home out of that attention: a picture, a poem, a script, a song. And with his budget, Thoreau was attempting to show that, even if you adjust the numbers to allow for inflation, his house was affordable to almost anyone who had saved a bit. In other words, to devote your life to the act of simply paying attention was something nearly anyone could afford to do. And that&#8217;s the question: is it affordable to devote yourself to making art? This past weekend, while staying with friends in New Jersey on my latest drive into New York City, a friend said, \u201cWhat would you do if you didn\u2019t have to worry about money?\u201d My immediate response was, \u201cWell that won&#8217;t be happening. And I\u2019m already doing what I would do if I didn\u2019t have to worry about money, but I\u2019m not doing it as much or as well as I would if I were rich. I\u2019s impossible to leave money out of it. Money counts.\u201d I don\u2019t make all that much, but so far I make enough to let me make art for at least a few hours every day. The trick is to get \u00a0to that \u201cenough\u201d and then use what freedom remains to do what you\u2019re best at doing. I\u2019ve come a long way from graduate school, when I had what I considered a \u201cfree ride\u201d in exchange for working as a teaching assistant. I work a lot harder for a living now and I spend more money than when I was a student. Even so, I make less than the median personal income for someone with a master\u2019s degree\u2014according to Wikipedia\u2014but so far iwe\u2019ll probably be able to pay off our home equity line of credit this year, and my wife and I both own our cars. In other words, no debt, including credit card debt.<\/p>\n<p>I write this blog in the spirit of Thoreau: there\u2019s no money in it and no need for it. I&#8217;m privileged to do other kinds of writing for core income, and sell an occasional painting to supplement it. Most of my sales come from Oxford Gallery here in Rochester, even though I have work for sale at websites where people anywhere in the world could see the paintings, including Amazon\u2019s beta version of an art market, thanks to my dealer here, Jim Hall. (So far, no sales from that channel. I have sold work on-line occasionally thanks to another website run by a good friend.) Three years ago, I joined Viridian Artists in New York City, an artist-owned gallery that survives on membership fees, along with fees it collects for juried shows, and occasional art sales.\u00a0<i>Occasional<\/i>. Let me repeat that.\u00a0<i>Very occasional.\u00a0<\/i>I allowed my full membership to lapse at the end of last year and won\u2019t decide whether to resume those payments until after I\u2019ve had my solo show in June. I\u2019d like to renew it after that\u2014I&#8217;ve stepped down to an affiliate status for much less expense right at the moment\u2014but I\u2019m still wondering if there isn\u2019t a less costly way to show my work in New York City. Of course, there is, but it would mean being invited to show at a gallery that has to sustain itself with sales rather than fees.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s always the option of <em>not<\/em> showing work in New York City, but that\u2019s a complicated decision. Manhattan may not be the center of the global art world anymore, but it&#8217;s one of the biggest portals into it. I know two extremely talented artists whose work is, to me, dramatically different, but whose career goals seem exactly the same: to get into a New York gallery that shows work in the big art fairs. I suspect this has become what many artists see as the only path toward the dream of doing nothing but making art, by selling enough of it <i>at art fairs<\/i> to make all other money-making activities pointless. The practice of selling work through a gallery, alone, seems to be in steep decline. One of these two artists who show their work here in Rochester has achieved this goal and now shows in a Manhattan gallery that can afford to sell work at the fairs. (I haven\u2019t had the chance to ask him how that\u2019s coming along.) The other, younger artist hasn\u2019t yet gotten into one of these galleries, but I suspect he will. Meanwhile he has a solid teaching\/administrative career in a good art school and a remarkable resume.<\/p>\n<p>Three years ago, rather than approach, say, a dozen galleries in New York City, to see if they would be interested in showing my work, I accepted Viridian\u2019s invitation to join and have been extremely happy that I did. The only catch is that it\u2019s become less and less affordable, on my income&#8211;though some members at Viridian can afford it much more easily. When I was deliberating about whether or not to join, I spoke with Matt Klos about it, interested in whether or not he\u2019d ever considered joining a gallery like Viridian. (First Street, Prince, Bowery, Blue Mountain, and many others offer memberships to people whose work is approved by the existing membership. They all charge fees in the same ballpark.) He said, with some pride, that he\u2019d never paid to show his work\u2014though we all enter juried shows where a small fee is required for the consideration of work. I knew what he meant: he\u2019d been awarded a free solo show at Prince Street Gallery, but had never had a membership at any of them. Yet he allowed that it wasn\u2019t a senseless thing to do: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.exhibitionpreview.com\/lewis\/lewis.html\">Stanley Lewis<\/a> has always shown at Bowery. He\u2019s never sold through a commercial gallery. It works for him.\u201d This actually helped me decide in favor of my membership. Lewis isn\u2019t a big-money superstar. His drawings and paintings are intensely idiosyncratic, physical objects that require you to see them in person. He&#8217;s hugely respected, as demonstrated last year with his inclusion in a fantastic exhibit,\u00a0<i>See It Loud<\/i>, at the National Academy Gallery, along with work from Neil Welliver, Paul Resica, and Leland Bell. If Stanley Lewis stayed with Bowery for so many years, and I suspect he could easily move to his pick of bigger-name galleries, then it seemed like a reasonable choice to spend the money, show the work and see where it led. The catch is that Lewis sells his work for significant money\u2014not the numbers I associate with the superstars or the art fairs, but far more than most artists would ever dream of making from a painting or drawing. So the lower commission taken from sales at a gallery like Viridian or Bowery makes perfect sense for a Stanley Lewis, as long as the work continues to sell for what it\u2019s worth. So if there&#8217;s a path toward a market, a membership at a gallery like Viridian makes sense and offers a family camaraderie that other galleries probably can&#8217;t provide. But you have to get past the initial sticker shock.\u00a0And it might make sense to stay with a Viridian, or Bowery, for other reasons as well, as long as the money for fees comes along.<\/p>\n<p><i>(Next: the cost of building my solo-show house, minus the need to pay for hair other than what\u2019s in my brushes, and a consideration of whether it\u2019s been worth it and may be worth it again.)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a couple years in the working world, when I decided to return to college and enter graduate school to study literature in the 70s, I read\u00a0Walden. 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