Artwork Inventory Database

Ugh. I'll learn not to keep important info in my email in-box. I've got everything from my website and my husband's in the artwork inventory database—image, title, size, medium, sold or not, etc. But certain information I’ve had to go dig up. Date of execution, for example, I found on my archived slide labels. Whereabouts—not a problem. Everything is here right now except the few pieces we still have at the Esteban Sabar Gallery.

Then I decided I’d better keep track of what exhibitions my work’s been in. Sure, I have a stack of show cards from every exhibition. But they don’t list the pieces that were in the shows. Where is that information? All the correspondence from every gallery and every exhibition was sitting in my email box. That’s just where it lived—each gallery in it’s own little folder, so organized. It all disappeared when the hard drive melted down. And to go back three or four years and try to remember which work was in which show and when? Geez, I'd even forgotten about some exhibitions altogether! "Oh yeah....THAT show!" Let me just say, “Hard copy, hard copy, hard copy.”

I’ve gotten it pretty much reconstructed—I’ve gone through my acceptance and rejection letters, which come in hard copy and I keep all of them in 3-ring notebooks. I did manage to print out a few emails. I went to various web sites where I’ve posted photos and gleaned some info. The more I pondered—I remembered one painting was in a particular show because someone insulted it and minutes later someone else praised it. I remembered on another exhibition I had to paint a new one to replace one that was going off to another show. In the future, however, I promise to keep better records. Hard copy, hard copy, hard copy!

That was most of today. I also wrote a draft of the press release that will go out to national magazines like Southwest Art magazine and New Mexico magazine (they’ve got 5 months lead time so to get a mention in for the High Road Tour this needs to go out by next Monday). And I cleaned up some images on Leonardo’s web site. And now I guess I’ll go catch “The Riches” on the tube ‘cause it’s quittin’ time!

Mousie still at large, thunderstorm rolled in.

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