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🟠 isolabellart
isolabellart@isolabellart.it.com
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I paint in oil. Inspired by time, silence, and light. Each work is unique and for sale in Bitcoin and Monero. β†’ https://isolabellart.it.com Art gallery: https://gallery.isolabellart.it.com
My profile on Nostrich says I have about 46,000 followers. If each of them sent me just 1 sat a day – no more than that – I’d have about 1,380,000 sats a month. However, I have far fewer followers than that, and I receive even fewer sats. Just saying.
image "The Last Light" Serhii Vasylkivskyi (Ukrainian, 1854–1917) Sunset over the Lake, 1900 National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
A question for all Nostr artists: Would you rather be successful without deserving it, or deserve success without ever achieving it? In other words: Would you rather make a fortune, knowing your art is empty and sells only because it’s been hyped up? Or: Would you rather be appreciated wherever you go, but have no one buy your workβ€”even though your art has real value? But then I started wondering: Who gets to decide that an artwork is β€œempty”? The artist? The audience? The market? Critics? And if a seemingly mediocre work manages to move millions of people and generate real economic value, is it really β€œempty” after all? #art #music #poetry #literature
Talent alone is not enough. Your positioning, visibility and the setting in which you present yourself are crucial. If you feel overlooked, perhaps it is not your worth that is lacking, but the stage on which you perform. Never let an unfavourable context make you doubt your worth. View quoted note β†’
I wanted to try a small experiment on XMRBazaar by putting two of my paintings up for sale. After almost a month, the results are quite modest: one painting received 14 views, the other 21, and there was only one comment β€” from someone who already knew me through Nostr. Those numbers are significantly lower than what I normally see when I share my paintings on barattolo.store. Even the posts linking to paintings on my own website tend to get more views when I share them on Nostr. I don't necessarily take this as a judgment on the paintings themselves. Rather, it seems like an interesting indication of how different platforms can have very different abilities to put your work in front of people who are actually interested in it. In the end, that's what experiments are for: you try something, see what happens, and then decide where it's worth investing your time and energy. For now, I'd say XMRBazaar didn't work as I had hoped. But at least now I know. πŸ™‚
Living well without the applause of others. Allowing yourself to make mistakes, to pause, even to get bored, without feeling any less worthy because of it. In a world that constantly demands we rush about and put ourselves on display, it's a form of silent rebellion.
@Nostrich kind of copied my logo and the idea of adding orange dots to their lyrics 🟠, but I'll let them off the hook... 🀣
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