[Jewelry making - Article 01091] - Re: [Orchid] Non-jeweler designers at shows

[Sam Patania]

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    I have a feeling that this all relates to what your goals are. If
    you are a person who wants to make a living at jewelry you will have
    to have many weapons in your arsenal. Now admitedly, when times are
    tough I will do assembly work, and freely admit I am a "ho" but
    better to be a ho and live to fight another day in my opinion.Prints
    are produced because everyone who wants to admire an artists work
    cannot afford to buy the original. Artist know, at least those who
    have made a living at it for any length of time, that this market,
    the ones who cannot afford the original, represent the largest
    market anywhere on earth , at anytime in history. Should these
    people just go with out? Not while I'm around and my kids need food
    and a movie and frivolous things like pencils for school. My sales
    directly impact my ability to raise my family. I have no other
    source of income. In this regard I am no different than most people
    no matter where they live or their placement on the scale of
    financial success or life enjoyment. 

    I was recently called a snob and retreating into my ivory tower
    because I went to appointment only and wholesale. I was no longer
    recognizing the "little people" who made me a succes. Well, you are
    all invited to my ivory tower, Dave Arens can attest to it's
    luxurious appointments. 

    I never called myself an artist until I realized everyone else did,
    not other artists but, those who would buy my work, and a few
    curators. I do not have an art degree, I have a passion for
    metalwork and jewelry like you cannot believe. Does a degree make
    you an artist? 

    Those who would be snobs must be able to afford to be snobs no
    matter what the discipline. For snobs I will be glad to make
    everything by hand, pin stems, bezels, bucklebacks, pin catches and
    joints, what ever. Really I am a snob as well, I think Dave Yurman's
    work I see in the adds in Vogue and W are a complete bore and remind
    me of the bins of designs I see at the Tucson gem show each year
    from Indonesia. Now, I wouldn't even think about it if I was in
    Yurman's apparent income bracket..... 

Sam Patania, Tucson
pataniajewelry AT earthlink.net

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