Brad Rumbl on Warpcast

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It’s late. My family is asleep. The house is quiet. This is when I get to create, if I'm not so tired that I go straight to sleep. By day, I work to provide. By night, when bandwidth permits, I build something that might one day sustain itself. I don’t have time for art market fuck-fuck games, for chasing hype, for making what’s “easy to sell”. Every hour I put into my art is an hour I’m not with my family or catching up on sleep. And yet, I keep creating. Not because it’s profitable (it isn’t). Not because it’s easy (it’s definitely not). But because I have to. Because there’s something in me that won’t stop searching, refining, evolving. It's an obsession. And I love my art, compulsively. Some nights, I wonder: Will it ever be enough? Will my work find the people it’s meant for? Or is all of this just another late-night ritual of an artist who can’t turn it off? I don’t have answers. Just the quiet hum of my machine, the glow of my screen, and the pull to keep going.

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Puhreeeeeach!!! It is the only way, keep your eyes on my posts as I will be adding open calls to things I think are relevant to artists on here, and that is one way into the IRL art world. Also, can I ask where you're based? As I get emails for predominantly US and UK/EU but can expand my search if it'll find more opps for others (as it means more opps for all)

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I'm US based I've honestly been avoiding open calls lately, it all comes down to bandwidth I can either create, or chase open calls And the numbers gauntlet of open calls, where hundreds of not thousands of artists are competing for art best dozens of exhibition slots, just doesn't feel like a productive use of my limited bandwidth I actually had an artist collective going for a while, (un)curated, dedicated to giving new life to custom pieces that artists created for open calls that didn't make it through the numbers game but months or years later still felt like some of our best work That kind of fell apart after a while, as group art drops proved just as incapable of generating art sales as individual efforts

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for reference https://warpcast.com/eirrann.eth/0xfc217cb7

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Ah man, if you were UK based this is the sort of thing the arts council England would jump at. I get the bandwidth thing though, I had to stop making music for the same thing and focus solely on the visuals/public install work. It pays, but selling work is a whole different ballgame.

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I have a day job that robs me of a lot of creative energy but pays the bills, giving me complete artistic freedom within the bandwidth limitations it creates until/unless I can figure out a way to earn a sustainable living from art, I think I'm just going to focus on iterating, experimenting and growing as an artist, rather than seeking exposure or sales

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