General Discussion

At our local galleries, salespeople say it’s rare for a person under 65 to purchase art. The young don’t have time to look up from their phones to actually look at art unless it’s art on their phones

AI has screwed photographers & artists big time - everyone who has a phone or beginning photoshop now makes their own art.

So - instead of wallowing in grief, the poorer me is using AI to add images to my photos. I have lots of NM landscapes where I try not to take the normal stuff but look for unusual stuff on the land.

So - I asked Groc to put an old fashioned girl wearing a bird mask into one of my photos - and I love it so I’m going crazy adding Javalina pigs, spaceships, aliens, animals, creepy people to my photos.

We no longer have a choice but to go with the flow. Almost all the galleries I ever showed work in have closed except a small coop gallery in my tiny town. Luckily- we have a nice art center where we have theme shows for the locals changing out shows every few months.

I also had thousands of images in stock photography, including Getty. Dumb me - I thought royalties fromthese images would contribute to my retirement. 🙃