MOMOKO: April 2010 Newsletter

News Not So New

Sold in 2008 in Florida

I always feel uncomfortable when I have to show funky junky that I made. I usually try not to show it to people for a while, but when I eventually show it, I would first put it in a corner so people wouldn't notice it.

I just feel more comfortable showing and selling my "neat" works.

My experience with selling my art, however, differs from my feeling towards my funky art. No matter how much I want to hide the funky stuff, I've sold quite a few of them. If you think funky people like the funky stuff, you're wrong. All the buyers of the funky stuff were all "neat" looking people with non-funky outfits. I've sold the weirdest looking things in the past years to those people.

I don't even photograph many of them before they are sold because I don't expect anyone would buy the funky stuff. But today, I've decided to overcome this reluctant feeling toward my funky stuff. Just because I don't like something doesn't mean no one else likes it. I really don't understand the mentality of those who "pay" to get funky stuff, but I am beginning to think that I might be good at funky stuff. Actually, it's not that I don't like it; I just have a hard time calling it "fine art." But now, when I think of it, these funkies might be the fine art and my other "neat" stuffs are "commercial" art

Since I am now in Oakland , where all sorts of industries and junks are accumulated, I have no problem finding cool "found objects." Perhaps it's about time to start a new body of art with funky junky. And I shall call it, "Treasure Funk."

For Sale! Click here for purchasing info (made in 2008)

Sold in 2008 in Florida

For sale! Click here for purchasing info (made in 2008)

Sold in 2008 in Florida