The End

Private collections until such a time that they send it to a thrift shop....I'd like them to self destruct along the way.
been there, done that.

That's funny, Ronald.

I'm not too worried about ending up anywhere. I just hope since my images are mostly on the internet, someone comes along 50 years from now when I'm dead and gone (unless I live to 114) and stumbles on one of my photographs and says "Wow, that's cool!". I suppose by then, someone else will have hijacked it and take credit for the work and I'll just be....well I'll just be dead and I won't care ;-).

Never really gave that question much thought Ronald. I guess the first thing that comes to mind is any where but on my shelves. I have been very fortunate in that my works have been purchased from people in many different countries, God only knows where they will end up. The good thing is copper is very durable and can last for ages even in the elements and then it is 100% recyclable.

Here is a most interesting quote:

All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces... So it is important to fashion ones work carefully in its smallest recess and charge every particle of matter with life.

Alberto Giacometti

Great question Ronald... and your story about the self portrait is hilarious.

It would be great to get some public commissions and have a piece of sculpture sitting in the middle of some town square somewhere. Some of the stone I use is extremely hard and may well be dug out of someones garden in a few hundred years.. but others, like these shown, will ultimately end up down the drain and at the bottom of the ocean as part of the great geological cycle.

I don't care -- I just hope the work is enjoyed and appreciated along the way.

Maybe, in 50 years or so, some kids will find my print stash, tear them into strips, and make those paper necklaces for their Moms. That would be awesome! :-)

Ronald,

Great story.

My work can never be in a museum. I have no originals. The works can not be collected. I have no originals.

I want to end up in history books.

I want to end up in the homes of discretionary buyers who appreciate fine art.

I want to see art fully democratized by digital technologies.

And I want to see a transfer on POD purchases fatten my bank accounts.

Dave

Love Giacometti! also love Germaine Richier, check her out if you get a chance, died in 1959.

I'm with Wendy. But I loved your story, Ronald!

Rebecca

Hey Dave, best of luck to you. Wondering about something, if your work can end up in homes of discretionary buyers why couldn't it end up in a museum? Prints of various kinds do end up there!

Ronald, thanks for that suggestion, very similar work by her, I like it! It must feel great to have your art hanging over such coveted throne.

I like to think that my image has helped many people achieve their goals.

Ronald one master piece deserves another,lol

Ronald,

The work is not collectible, but you might be onto something prints are up in museums.

Particularly photo prints.

Nice bit of thinking, thanks

Dave

I work to hopefully become a gallery represented artist. I wanna be well off and make art that makes people feel some type of emotion while at the same time, revealing a portion of myself to the viewer.

I really don't care but I had my paintings in two museums already.

Jullian, checked out your work, nice, it has character! All my best. Alfred, cool about the museums, are the works still in a museum or was it for a short time? In any case congrats on that!!

I always tell people they will be great kindling for the fireplace. I have no expectations after I am gone.

Ronald, , one in Shanghai, China and the other in Toronto, Canada both are in their collections which means they only display it whenever they feel like it LOL

Very cool, a few years ago I had a work accepted into a permanent museum collection but I have no idea if the work ever sees the light of day. At least the one over the toilet is seen from time to time!

Some time next month - I'll maybe have an answer for you - today - I'd prefer just that someone "want" them.

I want to live long enough to see my work on Antiques Road show. Not the part at the end, though, when people announce what they had appraised was only worth a few dollars.

at this point in life it don't matter.

I lost some of my work that was in a storage unit then many years later some friends went a funeral and found one of them on the wall at the funeral parlor, I expect to be doing parlor tricks for some time

A lot of my current work is intended to end up on book covers.

Robert, that is a great story! I think sometimes ones art has a life of it's own!

great story Robert !!! did you go and reclaim it LOL

no I figured it belonged there Beverly

I've thought about this a lot. I'm assuming that, since my work already generates such massive amounts of disinterest, it will be forgotten long before I die, and end up in closed Internet accounts; or deleted by whoever ultimately gets my computer. As for all my prints, the trash men will love 'em.

As expected.......

Lol! Even having ones artwork displayed above the grand porcelain throne is an honor, but I have found that as much as I need the money and publicity I cannot seem to part with my originals because its like selling the pages from my own diary or memories...its not such a bad thing to adorn your own walls with pieces of original art you yourself could never afford to buy! I hope mine will end up hanging upon my great grandchildren's walls :)

By the fact that there have been thousands of originals created and sold throughout the many years I've been at it, I have hundreds of stories of the current status of many of these pieces.

Vulture sculptures in lawyers' offices, doctors' waiting room, but none that I know of yet in funeral homes

Bat sculptures in wine cellars in Australia

Rat sculptures in laboratories in England

Work resold on Ebay and at yard sales.

A large collection in a very contentious divorce settlement

And one piece, I was just told about last weekend,by this gentleman, that's been sitting in his attic in it's original box, since it was purchased over 25 years ago.... He tells me that his wife won't allow that box to be opened as long as she's alive......The piece I fear has more value now, remaining in the box, than if it had been taken out and displayed.

I have a lot more stories, many I would so desperately like to forget

More thoughts on this "end":
after I long gone, all my works will become domain-free anyone can grab them and use them for shower curtain place mat and so on.

Oh, I love "per Crapps, man's greatest..." by Mario Carta.
On that note, I hope after I pass and if there is a place where I can see what happened to all my art, I want to know how it affected those who got it. I have put a great deal of art next to dumpsters at apartment complexes simply because I didn't want to carry it any longer in my home AND those paintings were very large. I also gave a lot to charity and Goodwill. I know that some of it was garbage for sure. But, I also know that one of my paintings caused a friend to shoot himself. I don't prefer that reaction to my work, so there is a great need to know if any of my paintings created a positive reaction to those around me. That is one reason I like being on FAA as some of you have reacted in a way that could heal some serious scars of the past.

The print, "The End" by Vivian Anderson is also very compelling. It makes me want to find an old shed to store my work so that one day someone might find a treasure chest of haunted works by Lisa Kaiser. Okay, that's a bit over the top...but I like Vivian's picture.

Thanks everyone! I am going to close this one now.