Into My Arms is done. I started this project on July 13th and finished it on the 30th. That is still longer than my goal of completing a work in two weeks. That goal was more of an idea to increase this art production, which it has, than the plan.

I have now completed eight of these smaller, small artworks. The goal was to create a group of smaller artworks that would allow me to stack and pack enough to apply to galleries and art centers out of this local area. Now that I have the numbers I need for a show, I am going to switch to professionalizing my bio, and the creation of an Artist Statement. Then next up would be to create a Exhibit Statement, update my CV (resume), write a brief description of this art, a document explaining why this art deserves an exhibition, a artist statement, make site image improvements on my .com website, and maybe spend a small amount of time on building my next project.

I found this interesting and something that has not been an issue for years. With this artwork video I had a YouTube copyright claim (no harm done) on the audio by the music owners for 46 seconds of my cover music. That surprised me for audio under a minute. I am also applying for a cover license (paying for 25 music boxes) for the one and only one Into My Arms Music Box. That license will be for 58 seconds of the music. I have the choice to follow up on this with YouTube, but why bother? Instead, I downloaded the video from YouTube (much smaller size than what I uploaded) to use here on the blog, by passing YouTube. In reality, my videos over the 14 years I have been blogging, all link to YouTube. I am sure YouTube likes that to capture more views of other videos from more popular content creators. I will leave the YouTube video as is, because neither the YouTube, the owners, nor I care. For me it all about documentation of this artists long and winding artistic Journey, Don’t Stop believin’, “It goes on and on and on and on.”

Scott Von Holzen

(updated August 1st)

Scott Von Holzen