Here is what is happening. I am running out of climate controlled storage. After 18 years of creating and storing musical artworks, eventually I knew this would be a problem. That is why I am once again trying what I have done multiple times before: make dinky, tiny, and therefore boring small art. The switch to small works, and lower pricing, may with this current style, make getting this art out there finally possible. Actually, I will need multiple pieces out-there. Small dinky also offers this art more traveling numbers which I need for an individual show. Whether this will work this time, I am concerned, but I’m going at it with all the features of the bigger works, and a positive attitude that goes beyond extending storage capabilities.

I should mention the why behind my remark about the “dinky, tiny, boring art.” Every artwork, all 200 plus of them, contains a personal meaning when felt when I created and that feeling remains to this day. You can go to Spotify ArtInMusic The Music for the playlist. My connection to the music I have painted has always been big, and therefore the artworks have been big to match. This bigness towards my musical portraits remains, but for practical reasons, I now need to produce small size art. So small it is, no matter how disappointing. No matter their dinky size, my commitment is to the music.

Looking at art as personal is common amongst the artists that create for the art. It is of lesser importance to those who treat their art mainly as salable produce. Art is a product, so I understand, but I chose the path “…the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” I see this art forever attached to me. Each of these portraits portrays not only a song but also who I once was. Each carefully chosen piece of music shows and displays a visual representation of a time in my life. That is why whenever I hear my artworks there is that moment of connection. A story is being told.

Scott Von Holzen