This week I started to connect a flimsy neck to the bulk of my woolen head of Medusa. Now that there’s a nose, two rudimentary eyes and recognisable lips, it seems right that there should be some kind of bodily grounding.
The challenge – ok, the entire thing is a challenge because I’ve never done this before, so let’s say the main challenge – this week is to use what clean wool I have as wisely as possible before I run out.
Recently I’ve been thinking about the sunk cost fallacy and how it relates to art and artists.
The sunk cost fallacy is (in my own boiled-down definition) a misconception that drives us to hold on to bad investments because of the amount we’ve already invested.
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As much as we make art for love, we have to be practical at some point and factor in the cost of our materials; after all, this will affect the price we charge when we go on to sell our work, or at least, have an effect on the amount of work we are able to produce.
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I really hadn’t planned to buy anything in September as I wanted to try to save up for some bigger buys (and more silicone). However, the offer of a sack of raw fleece was too much to resist.
The fleeces – 3 in all – were free to me, but I did get a few things to make processing them easier. Here’s what I got:
It was a bit of anyone’s guess as to how this week would work out, but I can see the floor again and the way ahead.
