SOCIETY 6

Have you heard about Society6?  It's a pretty rad site to showcase your art + photography, bonus if someone wants to take one of your works home Society 6 will print on multiple substrates for you, ship it and you get a little deposit in your piggy bank!  Ah, the magic of the interwebs.  I had been wanting to put some prints for sale for some time, but I didn't want the angst of printing them out and buying specialty packaging to ship them, this was a no brainer for me.  It did take me a while to get some photos up and name the shop/collection.  I was so proud when I had most of it done (I still have a bunch of images I want to upload).  I proudly showed my husband who may or may not have a dusting of Aspergers (the jury is out), he took a look at the site and creased his brows together, after a thoughtful moment he surmised, "I think it looks like you hate deer." Wha?  "It's a natural history inspired shop, antlers are awesome". He shrugged his shoulders, cocked his head and took another look, "I don't think it's your best work." This is what you must know about my husband, he is not mean but he is honest, very honest,  he says whatever the flip, flappin' jackin' thought is on his mind at any given time and it is take no prisoners. We have worked on this, since not everyone in the world can appreciate his brutal honesty. I have grown to ignore it, accustomed to it. The other day he was staring at my visage and thoughtfully asked, "Would it not be appropriate to tell you that I prefer you wear less make-up?" Because I am all about working in the solution I immediately countered, "WHAT DO YOU MEAN?",  he looked panicked like perhaps it was not appropriate to tell his wife that and now he would have to suffer the wrath of his wife's supreme insecurities. "Ur, I just think you look prettier when you don't have as much make-up on; and your face and neck are, uh, two different colors."  Another less vain evolved wife might have been hurt by this truth, but I took it as an opportunity to re-visit my make-up routine.  I am glad he said something about my make-up but I am less happy about his shop comment. Why you ask? Going back to working in the solution, I asked him, 'What photographs of mine do you prefer?' His only answer was a shoulder shrug, which is infinitely less satisfying than a proper example. So there you have it--I have a new print shop, I don't hate deer, in fact I am quite fond of antler'd animals and the skin on my face and neck match beautifully now.

P.S. I have no idea why my floral images look so murky & dark. I have a couple thousand emails out to Society 6 and I am sure they wish I would have never found them...