An Effort to Rebuild — Or at Least Re-Start

There was a time when we were trying to "go places," both with our little Red Dragonfly Gallery, and with this blog.

At this time — February 5th, 2019 — we are pretty much having to face the reality that the physical incarnation of what we have been doing will soon go away.

The economics of trying to run a brick-and-mortar art gallery in a town with an aging demographic (future post coming up on that) simply doesn't work anymore.

And that's very sad, but we have to face reality.

Street art in our town

As For This Blog...

But we're not going to throw away the Red Dragonfly name, completely!

We plan to keep going as a smaller online-only business, as well as an art-information type blog.

It's funny just how much times and fortunes can change.

Looking back to this time a year ago, our blogging efforts here actually represented a material part of the gallery's ability to pay its bills. With the price of Steem being strong, and Bitcoin not yet collapsed... we'd actually earned over US $1,000 in January 2018, just from blogging rewards!"

And that was just the 50% we were not powering up...

Fortunes change. This month — about a year later — we feel gratitude for 15-20 cents in rewards... although with a bit more effort, that could still change.

As things looked, a couple of days ago...

Still Delegating to @sndbox

We chose to power down most of our accumulated SP to help pay our bills at the gallery.

That said, we are still delegating 500SP to the @sndbox initiative, since it was largely thanks to our Sndbox membership that we did as well as we did.

We consider that delegation pretty much "sacred," for the foreseeable future.

Which leaves us with about 26 "free" SP to build on... but hopefully we'll be able to dig ourselves back out of the hole!

Central to that, the importance of "social connections" between artists. We've not had much time available for that, but whenever the physical location shuts down — sometime between now and June 30th — much more time will be freed up.

And that's about all the news, for now.

Thanks for reading!

Summertime street scenery, near the waterfront

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Red Dragonfly is a proud graduate through the @sndbox creative incubator program, part of the "Cohort 1"* team of May 31st, 2018. Please support @sndbox and the @sndbox-alpha curation initiative!

The Red Dragonfly is an independent alternative art gallery located in Port Townsend, WA; showcasing edgy and unique contemporary art & handmade crafts by local and worldwide artists. All images are our own, unless otherwise credited. Where applicable, artist images used with permission.

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