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But the key thing with commissions is that I don’t ask for something that I want, I ask the artist what they would be excited to make next and sponsor their next dream project. I get out of their way, but I sponsor it. Maybe this is equivalent to sponsoring one single or one song from a musician/band, but I don’t think the public is allowed to just do that, are they? There’s kind of a detached or indirect relationship between the musicians and the audience because the music labels are handling most of those decisions.
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chowcollection 2y ago

Which may also be true of visual artists who are represented by art galleries, where the direct kind of one-on-one collaborations that I do become closed off. But I’ve never worked with artists who are represented by a gallery like that. I tried to once but the response was, Sorry you have to go through one of my galleries to work with me, and I didn’t like that.

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chowcollection 2y ago

I’ve seen it happen where a popular band is no longer represented by a music label and simply goes to Kickstarter or GoFundMe to raise the funds needed to record the next album they want to make. That’s a very similar idea with crowdfunding patronage vs. the patronage of one individual. It’s just that the nature of original works of physical art cannot be shared or distributed so easily!