{"id":8310,"date":"2021-03-22T12:02:19","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T16:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=8310"},"modified":"2021-04-15T06:36:03","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T10:36:03","slug":"episode-291-stud-fee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=8310","title":{"rendered":"EPISODE 291 STUD FEE"},"content":{"rendered":"
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EPISODE 291   STUD FEE<\/div>\n

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alan skeoch<\/div>\n
March 2021<\/div>\n

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I do not remember his name.  But I do remember the purpose of his visit.  About a decade or<\/div>\n
so ago a wealthy horse owner approached Marjorie at an art show we were doing.  Art shows are<\/div>\n
not big deals.  Often there are no sales but lots of visitors.  Hardly worth doing sometimes when<\/div>\n
we considered the time involved and lugging 15 or 20 wooden quilts to a gallery\u2026then sitting around<\/div>\n
waiting for whatever might happen.   Art is a very subjective thing.  Hated or loved.  But rarely purchased.<\/div>\n
I am not even sure I want to sell often.  Like selling myself.<\/div>\n

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\u201cWould Alan consider making a wood quilt that I can use in place of a stud fee?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cStud fee?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cYes, I have a mare who is about to be serviced.  Money for the stud fee is not<\/div>\n
a big issue with the stallion owner.   He is comfortable.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cMaybe, Alan will do it.  He likes oddball projects.  Does his own thing.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cOnly issue is size\u2026not too large\u2026will hang in the stable\u201d<\/div>\n

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Flattering. Imagine being commissioned to create a stud fee.  My dad was no longer around but<\/div>\n
were he alive I know how he would have reacted.  He was a gambler.  A horse race gambler.<\/div>\n
He rubbed shoulders with the big shots, the horse owners, who paid extra admission to the snobbish<\/div>\n
Club House seating at the track.  If dad had been around he would have got a lot more<\/div>\n
for my Stud Fee that\u2019s for sure.  He would wait until the transaction was concluded then he<\/div>\n
would hit with a whisper.  \u201cYou couldn\u2019t see your way clear to lending me a few dollars, could<\/div>\n
you  I left my wallet at home.  Pay you tomorrow.\u201d  Or maybe something different like \u201cmy car<\/div>\n
broke down\u2026transmission\u2026need the car to move my sons Wooden Quilts from a gallery in<\/div>\n
Haliburton.  Can you spare a bit of cash.  Do not have enough on me right now.\u201d<\/div>\n
I know dad would have made much of the Stud Fee.<\/div>\n

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I did not charge much.  The horse owner never mentioned a Kentucky stable or the fact the stallion owner<\/div>\n
was \u201creally comfortable\u201d.  I thought the Wood Quilt was destined for some poor guy who kept a stallion<\/div>\n
and was living hand to mouth.  Like Dad.  So the stud fee was minuscule.  <\/div>\n

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This was the only time<\/div>\n
I ever made a picture for a sexual act.  That was something to brag about.<\/div>\n

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We met the horse owner at the track later on.  He said the stud fee was just great.  Now hanging in<\/div>\n
the tack room at the Kentucky thoroughbred stable.   <\/div>\n

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alan skeoch<\/div>\n

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A lot of my visitors at the art shows were kids.  Probably because young minds are more flexible than the minds of more sophisticated<\/div>\n
people.  I believe The young mind can find joy far easier than the older mind.  Acid criticism is just not yet fully developed in a young mind.<\/div>\n
Juried art shows are avoided.   I make the pictures because I want to make them.  Not because I want a lot of criticism.   I am too old<\/div>\n
for that.<\/div>\n

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Once I was asked to conduct a workshop at a museum down near Simcoe so  I cut out a bunch of cardboard shapes and had<\/div>\n
my audience of 10 or 12 make their own wooden quilts out of paper.  Some of he audience were children.  <\/div>\n
We had a lot of fun that evening.  <\/div>\n

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