how do you say goodbye to your art?

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[zawieja]

Having a little ceremony sounds nice, but I've never even thought about anything like that... I guess it just means that I'm not that attached to my art? Some old traditional pieces I discard just make me think "those were some fun times but it's time to move on!".
And a few times I asked friends if they want to take them since they find it awful that I just throw my own art out; and they did so I don't have to worry that it's a waste or something

[night-at-the-musian]

Some of my art was made via commission, and I say a proper goodbye when I seal the packaging. I do a KonMari thing, literally saying "thank you" to the work. For personal work, I say goodbye in a similar way to j - I burn it! Gives that part of my artistic journey a viking funeral. I burned all my art made before 2015, but unlike John Baldessari, I didn't get to bake them into cookies.

[alexela64]

this is a really cool concept that I'll have to explore going forward. up until now i've made or pasted all of my art into my sketchbooks, which are a good chronological view of my life from 2016 on.
But now and then i have pieces i toss in the trash if i just don't have space. i already have something like a ceremony for my new/finished sketchbooks, so this sounds like a cool addition.

[grubbyfox]

I have drawings that are 20 and 30 years old still laying around XD

Well, idk really. I mostly just draw on normal paper, and if I like it, I keep it, if not, I just throw it away. In the end, I usually just keep anything I found to be well made, or at the very least a little bit interesting to keep, even if it's a bit ugly or something. But then again, I am a little bit of a hoarder, haha. I keep most stuff in boxes and stuff tho, and the boxes stashed away, so the space itself isn't a problem for me. At some point tho I will probably throw away more of it.