u/baba_yaga_babe

I’ve been doing printmaking for about six years now. I have a number of ideas for cool designs I want to make, but haven’t been motivated to make them at all. I interrogated that feeling for a bit until I realized…I don’t want to make any prints because I don’t have anywhere to put them.

in the past, I’ve done prints for holiday cards, wedding gifts, commissioned, or selling in local makers markets. I’m not doing any of that now, I just have my own ideas in my head and nowhere to sell my prints. I’ve reached out to a few places since moving cities but haven’t gotten any response back - and honestly, I’m not sure I want to sell again. The pressure to produce sucked some of the joy out of the process.

i know I could give them away, but art is a tricky thing to gift. people have very particular styles and wall art is not something you can easily hide away. It’s literally on your walls. ive considered just dumping a ton of prints in Little Free Libraries, but that’s for books not for art.

help! What are others doing with their prints?

edit: i know prints don’t take much room to store, but it is demotivating to make something and know in the back of my head that it’s destined to sit in a shelf, hidden away, out of sight. The point of this post is to drum up ideas for what to do instead of that :)

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