{"id":16947,"date":"2009-08-08T16:02:31","date_gmt":"2009-08-08T21:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=16947"},"modified":"2009-08-08T19:49:24","modified_gmt":"2009-08-09T00:49:24","slug":"eric-francis-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/eric-francis-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"Bushy tailed, and 10 out of 20"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toronto<\/em><\/p>\n

Good eeevening,<\/p>\n

Yesterday I figured out that the trade show floor here was populated mainly by publishers. True, they are mostly publishers of forensic tests, personality tests, textbooks and how-to manuals. It is basically an empirical world where beauty is a kind of alien visitor.<\/p>\n

Still, I got the idea that I was going to talk to as many of them as possible, open up my portfolio and hand them a copy of yesterday’s article, “The Inner Goddess and the Inner Gaze.” I am, after all, one of the few non-psychologist presenters here; and I’m going to guess the only one invited as an artist specifically with a theory of healing. So on the basis of that potential clout, I decided yesterday that I would present my work to 20 publishers, one at a time.<\/p>\n

Part of the fun is knowing they’re probably not interested. This helps me have nothing to lose. I’m doing this for practice, to see the and hear the reactions of people encountering my work, and to spread Book of Blue and Planet Waves postcards (and an article) around the neighborhood. I made it to half my goal today. I was sidetracked, or perhaps put on track, by publisher #7 out of 10 who asked me if I knew of Judy Kuriansky<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

In fact, I had met her, when I was the keynote speaker at the Celebration of Sacred Sexuality in Harbin, CA in the autumn of 1997. I was asked to give an astrological keynote for that conference, which I called “Leaping Across the Sky,” about Chiron and Uranus. Basically, I read the chart for the event as the keynote presentation, a credit to the facilitator, Deborah Taj Anapol, who is respectful and curious enough about astrology to have me open her conference with an astrological reading. I spent a bunch of the weekend hanging out with Dr. Judy and was happy to see her lively presentation today: a real conversation about how important honest discussion of sexuality really is. She covered recent news items that involve sexuality; the phenomenon of sex museums; and a number of other pop culture topics, which is her specialty.<\/p>\n

After that I came back to the trade show floor and kept going. While most of the publishers said they had no interest in the concept of a photographic healing method; or that they could not afford to reproduce the photos, almost all of them commented on the work for its value as art. Now, I’m determined to truck down to Manhattan one day soon and do the same thing in art galleries. I’m shifting from the position of having nothing to lose to a measure of certainty that someone is going to like it enough to put it on the walls of their gallery.<\/p>\n

Faith, the essential ingredient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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