For a pro, only working for fun is not funny. So I might keep this blog as a showpiece but don’t expect any regularity from me. I feel through with that. To get plenty of readers you have to update weekly, which I did for many years. So there is plenty to look at in the archives. But there is no reason to strain adding to the pile if there is little money in it and already much to see.
Look: Last time I had ads, people fled.
An appeal for donors led to even less (namely, nothing).
I am right now represented in a well visited web shop elsewhere – no result so far, so having one here (if I knew how to do it) would be silly. And lead me closer to the burnout that I already feel scorching me a bit. So there’s health considerations in slowing down too.
This one I do on commission; a portrait of Delia Derbyshire, electronic music pioneer, yet in ink only. There also has to be a lot of glasses, as the ones she painstakingly copied the sound of in her rendering of Bach’s Air. (It is said that she also needed lots of glasses for Lord-knows-what she tried to drown.)
I am still trying to find the energy -- not to mention the ounce of inspiration -- to finish it. Contrary to what some people say you need at least some little. You might call it "Spiritual Honesty" toward your work…
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