I painted a Polednice today. My dad suggested the theme of Bohemia for September, and I went with it because I also had a conversation about my upcoming piece for an exhibition held in conjunction with NFCastle event in November. Which is focused on maintaining and preserving cultural identities through blockchain technology. Much of the work present on the exhibition also relates to the Czech Composer Dvorak, who created a series of symphonic poems related to Erben’s collection of Folklore in his book Kytice. Among these stories is one of the Polednice, which is a woman, sometimes old, sometimes young, who appears on the hottest day of summer, and sometimes in the night. She torments passers by with difficult questions, and steals the lives of children who misbehave.
I plan on continuing the theme of Bohemia throughout the rest of September and am also interested in other ideas besides Folklore.
I've also had an idea to begin archiving all of my work by month, and just selling collections as opposed to individual pieces. I can create custom crates, or boxes that contain all of my work from one month, and make that entire collection available for purchase. I haven't totally thought it out, because sometimes people just want a single piece, so maybe I'll do like one piece throughout the month that's available individually and the rest is a collection.