Today I picked up my packages from the apartment office, among them was one from my P.O. Box in Melbourne. It was heavy and so I figured it was just full of return envelopes… I was right. Six replies of my thirty came back and all were very pollite “no thank you” responses. Some stated that they were impressed with my work but either had no room for new artists or simply did not feel that my work was a good “fit” with their gallery. A lot of them liked the use of quotations when using the word fit.

I may write a few of them back to say thank you for the time to review my work and ask if they know of any galleries in the area that might be a better “fit” for my work. Why not right?

This puts me into a mailer deficit of 21. I ran out of return envelopes from my PO Box three weeks ago… I imagine that I’ve got a much heftier deficit than just 21 at this point. We’ll find out this week sometime.

I’m so behind after the opening, vacation, and party. I’ve got a painting to do this week because I’ll be painting live at the Lansing Art Gallery downtown on Thursday and I’d hate to go in there with a blank canvas.

Here’s to hoping that I can play catch up… and to hoping that somewhere in the next stack are more hopeful results. Not discouraged, just overwhelmed… 21 is almost like starting all over again.