Can I make £1 million from my artwork?
As long as I can recall I’ve been a dreamer. As a boy I savoured blank paper because it crawled with possibility.
But taking it off the paper and into the real world took a few more years.
The first time my fanciful dreaming tried to walk the bridge from my mind to the real world was as a twenty year old when I placed an advertisement in the local newspaper to sell my old car. Instead of asking the $1,000 it was worth I placed a $7,334 price tag (a specific price I’d heard was more believable) with an explanation it would help rich people appreciate their luxury car.
This brings me to what I created yesterday and the ultimate expression of my twenty year old self's idea: a magical proposition to make £1 million from my artwork.
You see, an artist isn't just making art but is trying to find a way into a human heart by floating over the moat of your natural defenses.
This week, I took that boyhood dream, a heartfelt imaginary tale and (as part of Quest Of The Four Questions) a way to help the CEO of Aston Martin care.
I’ve put a lot of fishing nets out into the ocean of possibility (A request for Coke, Writing to a billionaire and now Aston Martin) now I try to reel something in. And that’s to where I turn next.
Oh, and if you'd like to have your very own print of the magical rusty old car I'd love to send it to you.
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The whole journey: The Adventures Of Oscar Finch