Redbubble - Camera/Art Club?
Being only just over a week or two old in redbubble years, i would like to get some feed back – as to what dose Redbubble mean to you?
I am at this moment in time reading a biography of Alfred Stiglitz by Richard Whelan. In this biography Stiglitz is shown to lay a great importance on the existence and growth of photographic clubs that also include artist from different established art forms. The question that i ask is – is Redbubble the modern or even post modern photographic/ Digital club ?
SylviaHardy
I am a child at heart! When I drew pictures and showed them to my family and friends in school and they loved it, I was extremely happy. It made me feel that I was good at something and people enjoyed what I was doing. The same way I feel about my photography. With me it is never about money, or becoming rich and famous. I know that there are others who are far more talented then I ever will be.
I love sharing my work and making people happy. I do portraits for my friends and I do it for nothing, which is not quite true because I am the one who gets pleasure out of giving to people.
Since I have joined redbubble, I have learned so much from other artists and photographers, which is enabling me to look at my own work with a different eye.
When I receive feedback, its amazing that people are interested inough to want to look at my work. This has given me so much confidence in what I love doing!
To me, it is nice to share and to receive feedback,
thanks for asking!
Carl Gaynor
To explore the true meaning of human expression – to give without expecting any thing in return. How many of us are so true? Just a thought.
Sylvia, i agree it is a great feeling when someone who you do not know gives without condition positive feed back. Is it a human need?
How would you feel, or any body else – if you received negative feedback – hopefully in a constructive manner? Do you feel the artists showing there work in Redbubble would benefit.
SylviaHardy
To be honest? I never claim to be perfect. I don’t expect much and I don’t get disapointed much. If someone feels strongly about my little efforts and thinks I’m waisting my time? He or she must either be great artists themselves or they are jealous?
If someone feels they are benefitting from my contribution because they feel I have some tallent and it enables them to be inspired by it? So be it!
If we can’t express feelings and emotions about our life and the world we live in? I feel, that we might as well be dead.
Beauty surounds us, but so does pain! Art also in photography is just one way to comunicate the way we feel – what makes us happy and what makes us sad.
It can also be a form of escape from the real world – or it can be a form to expose!
People relate to expressions of art and images in the way that they feel.
For that reason they can love your work or even hate it, that’s the risk an artist takes when he or she shares the work with others!
Kind regards,
Carl Gaynor
Hi Sylvia,
great response and thank you for you strong conviction towards freedom of expression. My comments were not a personal attack, just thoughts on art and especially photography as a means of expression.
Is Redbubble a station for the need of that freedom of expression, if so – is there room for a critical response.
Pilgrim
Carl, thank you for this. I hope/think that RB will be able to serve the purposes of a photo club (writers club, artists club etc) for its many different groups of members. Aspiring and leading them in their art. At the same time I would always want it to be more accessible than this – both in allowing the art to reach out and in allowing non-artists to get behind the scenes. In this sense it should also be a gallery, swap meet and production facility. A BIG ask!
Carl Gaynor
It is a BIG ask!
I look forward to watching it develop – can it be all things to all people? I find it fascinating and even more so because i am a part of what i see happening the artist as a proud amateur. I do feel this emergence of the active amateur is partly down to the internet. It is like stepping back in time, but without the upper class status the active amateur was perfused to have. I am glad to be apart of what is happening.