Postcards from the Edge

We are a week into the new year and I have accomplished the first phase goal I had set for my new project.   I have a created a Facebook page showing a large assortment of my imagery and varying styles.  In case you have not seen it Terry J Cyr Photography on Facebook. The process is defiantly forcing me to look at my library and sort though my images.   It’s actually kind of fun to begin working toward creating some semblance of a portfolio of what I do and have done.   It actually kind of surprises me to see stuff together and look at it and say wow did I actually create all this.  I think sometimes as artist we stay so focused in the details of what we are currently dealing with that we don’t always see the over all picture of who we have become.  More importantly I have begun this blog to pull my thoughts, ideas, dreams, and experiences together collectively.   I do not really know if anyone out there has the time or inclination to read or become involved with other peoples lives or experience, but I have always journaled and spewed forth what was in my head.   It somehow helps me to gain perspective and it gives me direction.   The more important part of this process is that I have actually become disciplined enough to post this each day.

Today is a hallmark day for me as I have an image that is opening in a show in New York City.  It’s part of a show called Postcards From the Edge as a benefit for an organization called Visual AIDS.   My friend John Douglas from Sydney, Australia has submitted work to it before and suggested I do so also this year.  He suggested it would be good exposure for me and start to get my images out there.   So here it is.  With the world filled with so many images and artists how does one get their stuff out there and begin to become recognizable.  I feel my talents have been hidden from the world.  I just didn’t know how to approach expanding my market.  I know it’s something I have got to work at and constantly network and reach out to people globally.  But who are these people?   Last summer I joined the Red Bubble community, which was a collective of international artist based out of Australia.   It was the first time I had shown any of my images and I was quite surprised by the response.  I felt like I immediately become a hit with a community of like-minded artists.  I even got several pieces into a show in Sydney.   I then got busy with the summer and was distracted away.  Without constant working of the site I soon dropped below the radar and disappeared back into oblivion.  The big question: is there a market for any of this kind of stuff and where do I really want to go with any of it? I would love to do it but it takes time and how do I juggle everything else I am doing and still maintain all this.  Where or even will I find a tipping point that I can make money on such images and be able to sustain my self economically to be able to make it grow?   The big hindrance has always been are my images worthy of going into a global market?   I believe they are!   I am surprised by what a body of work I have amassed over the years.   I think this show in New York is a step in the positive direction. I now need to find other ways and places to submit my images.   I need some help figuring it all out. Anyone out there that may have a suggestion I am willing to try anything.

This is part of a series of images I created call “End of the Relationship.”  Its was about two guys who had shared a remarkable relationship together and realized they both were now heading in different directions and it was time to let go of each other.  They wanted to capture the essence of what they had once held and allowed me into their world for this brief glimmer of what they had once held before they departed.   This is the image currently in the Postcard from the Edge show and auction.

VIEW FULL IMAGE: END OF THE RELATIONSHIP #641