Above: photo of my mailbox ready to explode!
Dear friend,
I wanted to let you know that if you ever write me an e-mail and never hear back from me you shouldn't take it personal at all. It is not that I intentionally didn't want to respond. It is just that most of the times it is humanly impossible for me to respond each e-mail individually.
Once I go through my mailbox and delete all the junk e-mail that I get daily then I read the ones that are not junk. These are some of the e-mail categories that I get:
1. Request for an interview. (I am not able to do interviews right now due to my limited time. I love to be interviewed so I hope that I can resume them in the future. I love interviews with interesting, short and original questions.)
2. Request for a custom work. (I normally don't do custom work because I honestly prefer to do my own thing. Once in a while I do something special for someone but it's not often.)
3. Technical questions about materials that I use. (I do answer them as often as I can or I share the information in the content of my posts)
4. Beautiful letters saying how much someone has been inspired by my art. (These are letters that I treasure in my heart and in a special file that I keep on my computer. Thanks a million for them.)
5. E-mails from upset people that never heard back from me. Fortunately these e-mails only arrive once in a while. (This post is for you, maybe after reading it you will feel better. I am so sorry if I hurt your feelings. It was never my intention.)
6. Students that need my help for a school project. (I wish that I could help all the students out there with their projects! Right now my list of students is limited to my children Natalie and Diego. Helping them is already a lot of work.)
7. Artists asking for a collaboration. (I would LOVE to accept this kind of offer when my time allows me to do so in the future.)
8. Request for permission to link to my blog and use my pictures on other blogs. (You're welcome to do so.)
There are many more categories but these are the main ones.
I want to say that I feel honored when someone feels compelled to take the time to write me an e-mail. I highly appreciate it. The fact that I keep several blogs generates lots of connections with special individuals from all over the world. That's the most beautiful gift that I get from my Internet presence. But because I cannot keep an ongoing e-mail communication with thousands of people I still want to nurture that connection through my blogs.
Every time I write a post I don't do it for "a bunch of people out there". I blog for a single person and that person is you. I try to give you everything that I have as an artist and as a human being in general because I believe that giving is a good thing.
Please forgive me if I don't write you back. I still love you and I will keep giving you everything I can from my small presence in the world.
Elsita :)
