Winter time. Time to create.

Boy, none of my jobs seem to work out. A few months ago I was invited to make a billboard on top of a store in Weehawken. The owner, it's a Marble and Granite store, wanted to expand his business and he certainly needed some good art on his old building. The most surprising thing was that he offered me some money beforehand, $100. He also promised me the future design of stationery and business cards, etc. Why not, I grabbed it and immediately bought myself a black parka for the winter. Then I went to work. Looked good, I was happy ... and then it got stuck. He ran out of money. I called and called and called and it has been postponed. Apparently... apparently just for the time being. But again, bad luck. Here is the store billboard as I envisioned it for him. But it is still not mounted.

And so it goes all the time. I was asked to help out the last moment at press time of a newspaper, production time. Ok I came, I worked 13 hours and submitted my bill. Never heard from them again. Upon my inquiry I heard that the newspaper folded the next day, this had been the last issue. The end. I was not too surprised to hear that since I was laid off from my job a while ago at a newspaper and knew how difficult it is to survive.

So I do lots of free work to stay with it ... but where are we all going. Sort of frightening.