I just finished this piece today entitled "Lost & Found" my homage to Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece Vertigo.

I'm in an interesting place in my art life of late. I think I'm somewhat of a late bloomer. The three pieces you can see here are evident of my style you could say, or the nitch that I have discovered that I comfortable with. I'm always battling the idea of success or failure as an artist. My good friend Aaaron Tucker is quite successful, on his own terms, selling his work, finding a customer base, a gallery, etc... I'm not there yet, having moved back to the midwest and reconnected yet again with my own creative drive I've had to dig and dig and go through a rebirth, and I feel like I should be further along then where I'm at currently.

I recently put together a group of my latest work and started out on the gallery tour, without success, namely because most of the galleries were closed the day I chose to go to them. Suffice it to say I was really discouraged. I'm the kind of person that believes that some things should be easier then they are. I'm not a salesman. Becoming a businessman in terms of putting my work out there is one of the biggest hurdles I've had to climb. Thankfully, after re-thinking my tactics and looking at my rather small body of work, I've realized that I still don't have enough of one style to successfully market or push a showing.

So, lately I've had my head in my makeshift studio/apartment, [where I won't be receiving my security deposit due to the large amounts of paint in the carpet] I have the next 4-5 pieces in my head and I can barely hold myself in to not start building canvasses and creating these pieces simultaneously.

I'm a good road at the moment.

J.M. Prater