A new direction, will it work?
I plan on having the next Tiny Run design be one of my own, and this image is the beginnings of a workup of what I’m aiming for. I rather like that I really have no idea if it’s going to work, or how many more things will change as I progress forward. At least two things have changed as of today. The process is fascinating.
I also added a new gallery page at the front of the site, soon to be joined by a few more gallery pages. I realized that I really need one visual reservoir of all the things I’ve done. I had hoped that the flickr site would be something along these lines, and over time, perhaps this will be the case. But I have quite a few items from years past that need to be seen as well.
It seems strange to me that many, close to all, really, of the things I have made have gone out into the world. Who knows how they have help up, if they now have pit stains, how the purchaser feels now a year or more later. Unlike threadless or many web comic authors that I read, I don’t get any photos back from people with my shirts on. Not really. Casey and her sis showed up wearing theirs last year and that was awesome…other close friends still wear shirts from the set I gave out at Christmas years ago. I appreciate the love, but sometimes I cringe when I see them. “So amateur,” I think to myself. So perhaps no pictures is better? Or would it only motivate me to do even better?
By the end of the week, a trial version of the batik of this one should be done. The final version might have a screen print over it, something I’ve been longing to mix with batik for a long time. It won’t be the medical text in this image though, something else. The tentative title of it:
“sometimes everything seems like a band-aid on cancer.”
