{"id":281,"date":"2011-07-03T12:04:54","date_gmt":"2011-07-03T19:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/?p=281"},"modified":"2011-07-03T12:04:54","modified_gmt":"2011-07-03T19:04:54","slug":"focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/focus\/","title":{"rendered":"Focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I am currently between jobs (read unemployed) I am doing a lot of research on promoting yourself as an artist. Conclusion, I don&#8217;t think I will become famous&#8230;;)<\/p>\n<p>Almost all the articles I read, and curators I talk to speak of having a cohesive &#8220;show&#8221;. That is, all your work is a consistent theme. Not me, I tend to bounce around&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I will admit that lately my work has been largely natural world semi-abstracts, such as my famous fish skeleton:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"g2image_centered\" title=\"Fall in Goldstream Park\" src=\"http:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/portfolio\/d\/2133-10\/251209dscf2338.jpg?g2_GALLERYSID=1196ac52346eac0ec26f27f844057313\" alt=\"Fall in Goldstream Park\" width=\"101\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I do have some urban scenes, again, I tend toward the semi-abstract:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"g2image_centered\" src=\"http:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/portfolio\/d\/75-21\/s22003_1010AA.JPG?g2_GALLERYSID=1196ac52346eac0ec26f27f844057313\" alt=\"\" width=\"101\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But then I go and throw a complete curve and start experimenting in Photoshop:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"g2image_centered\" title=\"I think this may become part of a series called bugs...\" src=\"http:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/portfolio\/d\/5670-3\/130510dscf3814mirror.jpg?g2_GALLERYSID=1196ac52346eac0ec26f27f844057313\" alt=\"130510dscf3814mirror\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" \/><\/p>\n<p>OK, so it looks like I like abstract images, but then I have many much more &#8220;straight&#8221; images:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"g2image_normal\" src=\"http:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/portfolio\/d\/3514-3\/06042011-6600.jpg?g2_GALLERYSID=TMP_SESSION_ID_DI_NOISSES_PMT\" alt=\"\" width=\"101\" height=\"150\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"g2image_normal\" src=\"http:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/portfolio\/d\/3390-3\/17022011-6223.jpg?g2_GALLERYSID=TMP_SESSION_ID_DI_NOISSES_PMT\" alt=\"\" width=\"102\" height=\"150\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"g2image_normal\" title=\"no sitting today\" src=\"http:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/portfolio\/d\/3301-3\/12012011-6048.jpg?g2_GALLERYSID=TMP_SESSION_ID_DI_NOISSES_PMT\" alt=\"no sitting today\" width=\"101\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So what kind of conclusion can I draw?<\/p>\n<p>What kind of artist am I?<\/p>\n<p>How can I market myself?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I should forget about all that crap and just go out and take some photos&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I am currently between jobs (read unemployed) I am doing a lot of research on promoting yourself as an artist. Conclusion, I don&#8217;t think I will become famous&#8230;;) Almost all the articles I read, and curators I talk to speak of having a cohesive &#8220;show&#8221;. That is, all your work is a consistent theme. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,2,7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lessons","category-personal","category-photography","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}