art may be the first things to go...but these peices are the type that go in comercial and govt building lobbies and if you get your pix out and get into doing logos and emblems you'll be busy supplying shops that don't have that talent!Last year I started doing these things more seriously as I am looking for a way to get out of the treadmill of site work.....and then the big cash crunch happened and there was no work for a month (nov), and I realized that when the times are tough, art is one of the first things to go, so I haven't made any more pieces yet.
But I have been busy doing site work, I now get to work harder for less money and the people I get work through justify it by saying we have to be competitive to get the work.
I'm happy to be working, but these intentionally manufactured recessions really suck.
Thanks for the nice comments, it is encouraging.
I have bought that dreamweaver program and my oldest son is putting together a website so we will have a better edge.
I do these pieces by hand with a ring saw, but now there is this technology called water-jets which can cut anything and they have been embraced by the stone industry as they make absolutely perfect cuts and flawless work which is impractical and even impossible to replicate by other means.
The downturn has left them also looking for ways to pay off their expensive machinery and so the top end work gets snapped up by them.
My stuff kind of falls into another niche where people appreciate the fact that the work was done by hand and not a CNC machine.
So we shall see what occurs.