You know what’s at the end of the rainbow — a pot of gold. That’s a brutal way of making reference to my somewhat large tummy, but it rivets the point — we’re a long way from marketing high-end fine art.
What we need is a New York Gallery to accept my work, and for a couple dozen museum curators to competitively bid to acquire some of my works for their collections.
Not much to ask.
In the meantime, let’s go with what we’ve got, and I’ll outline for you exactly what it is we’ve got, keeping in mind that most of us don’t have a million dollars worth of original paintings in the attic.
Mine are actually in an inaccessible corner in my upstairs painting studio, and that’s where they’re going to remain until somebody buys them to donate them to museums.
The whole idea is this: Objective Art emanates Dissolving Radiation — that is the actual definition of Objective Art. It radiates Bardo radiations.
The longer someone stays in the presence of these works of Objective Art, the more effect it will produce.
What is the effect, exactly?
I TOLD you the effect. Dissolving Radiation. Not something LIKE it, the Dissolving Radiations themselves.
It’s not the subject matter. I have the secret of imbuing paintings with Dissolving Radiations, and that’s what I use, especially for those larger paintings which were intended for public display.
Some of my work has been used as backdrops at the Hollywood Bowl, meaning that the size of these images were absolutely enormous, and the radiations washed over thousands that night, and continue to do so in its present installation.
No matter how carefully you prowled around your house, you probably could not come up with a million dollars worth of original handpainted canvas backdrops & props, but I have it right here, available to you.
What that means is, you can sell them, even though you don’t own them. No investment. What happens is, you find a buyer for the art.
They can keep it, store it, sell it, donate it, and a number of other things — it’s entirely up to them what they do with the artwork.
One of the more popular things is to create a Living Trust and donate the artwork, which stays on the donor’s wall at home until the Day of Reckoning — actually a couple of weeks after the Day of Reckoning — after which it goes into a public display.
There are museums and other venues that have been asking, and all we need are willing donors to buy and donate the art, which benefits everyone all around.
My artwork is priced by the marketplace, and most of my larger pieces sell for anywhere between $35,000.00 and $50,000.00, depending where it’s sold; for instance, in New York City, some of the auction houses have priced my 48″x60″ canvases at $50,000.00.
You get a very respectable percentage for your help in selling the work, and if you prefer, that can be a charity donation.
Several Jazz foundations would LOVE to receive a donation of one or more of my JazzArt pieces, especially the ones that have a history of being exhibited in their venues.
There’s no end to the number of art objects we have available at just about any price range.
I should mention that I have several of Tom X.’s bronze sculptures available, but they are so scarce that they really should go to public installations, like his paintings and pastels.
I’m hoping that people will buy my art to donate it. This art is meant to be exposed to as great a number of people as possible, as quickly as possible, to raise the general public consciousness level, far above the present catastrophic level of violence and superstition.
It isn’t that much to ask, not that big a deal. I’ll say it again:
The only reason you haven’t ever sold a million-dollar painting is because you’ve never tried.
The thing is, even if you know that, it won’t help you unless you have the ability to get going along a trail and keep up the pace.
It takes the same amount of actual effort to sell a high-priced thing as a low-priced thing.
You need a cause, something impersonal, to get you going. Well, getting donors for my artwork is certainly a way of getting going, and the better we can place the things, the greater the effect will be.
Sure, that produces Merit, but that’s really not as important as getting these radiators out there among the public as quickly and efficiently and effectively as we can.
My work doesn’t have to visually appeal to anyone. All it needs is a home, and it will do its silent and invisible work among mankind.
You want a less aggressive and violent world? Well, this is one way it can be accomplished, but speed is necessary — time is of the essence, meaning that everything is getting ready to explode, pop, as it were, and to make the donation of fine art to museums a lot harder.
The thing is, you don’t have to convince anyone that they like the painting or that they should buy it because it’s going to be worth more next year.
They’re donating a piece of Objective Art, with the complete understanding that it is a Projector of Peace and Harmony and profoundly affects anyone who comes within a few feet of its influence.
When someone gives in order to donate, it takes away all the personal likes and dislikes, and actually, the artwork itself is not important for the sale.
Of course, an actual receiving institution must want the work in their collection, or they simply won’t accept it, so all that groundwork has to be done before the sale, although the conveyance of money doesn’t have to relate to the date of acquisition of the piece, if you follow my meaning.
Even if you don’t, that’s the way it is.
In one museum show sometime in the 1980s, a young lady came into the exhibit hall and sat on the central bench, in front of one of my paintings from the Sanitarium Series.
She sat there for hours, and returned every day until the show closed at the end of the month.
That’s the effect of Objective Art. It has nothing to do with personal amusement. It’s the business-end of a Blessings Cannon.
So that’s one way to sell the art. There are many other reasons for people to buy my art. One of the more traditional and likely reasons is value.
Even in this recession, my artworks still sell at the same relative price, when adjusted for inflation.
Even in wartime my artwork has sold, and will continue to sell, because war is war, but the art market is the art market.
I hope you get it, because I surely don’t. Lessee — war is war … oh, let it pass.
Yeah, there’s an idea encapsulated here — pay attention. Anything that’s one of a kind can be sold for any price, to be determined by the market, not by the seller.
What does that actually mean? You may well ask. Okay, I’ll tell ya.
See, the thing is, if someone wants something badly enough, and they can easily afford it, no matter how high the moon, they will pay any price, provided many others who can afford it also want it, which is what creates the aforementioned marketplace.
So what if I did sell a pair of socks for $67 Million Dollars? Big deal, I’m going for a billion for a Designer LRS Symbol Zippo lighter. I’ve already had an offer of $75 bucks, but they cost me $80.00.
Again, the idea is that the item itself is of no actual significance, except to root the attention on a particular thing which can be associated with the sale.
The sale is the time spent between buyer and seller. That’s what’s worth the money. Most folks don’t know that the product purchased is merely a souvenir of the interaction.
So you’re looking for a bigshot, a whale, someone who wants to own something that no one else has.
I mean something desirable. I’m sure nobody actually thinks of themselves as an “owner” of a tall pile of horseshit.
Speaking of horseshit, did you catch the end of the latest Hearing?
It puts me in mind of one of my earlier business plans — selling Pardons — but apparently the Catholic Church has been doing it for years.
I know what you’re thinking. Manufacture my own brand of Pardons, but that won’t do any good — they’ve got the marketing platform sewn up, so I’ll have to be satisfied with selling the occasional Blessing.
Pardons bring in the big money.
Blessings sell, but they don’t bring much, not enough to pay the rent. Hey, there’s a thought.
How about selling art to raise the money to pay off the Ashram mortgage?
Gosh, it’s getting later and later, and every time I ask the people around me what time it is, everybody gives me a different time!
Oh, I didn’t mention the most important reason to sell Objective Art. Because you can.
See You At The Top!!!
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