2 million dollar pictures – turning dreams into reality – can you help?

today i have woken to the sound of torrential rain before my 5am alarm, and as i emerge from my warm toasty bed i realise i need my mountain socks for what feels like an autumnal morning.

i love all the seasons, so the blending into the next only makes me appreciate what’s to come, the transformation of the trees from the vibrant primary colour green, to the beautiful hues of yellow, orange and brown, and as i sit here thinking of autumns past, i remember my childhood walking through highgate woods kicking through the leaves, loving that rustling sound, and how the sun hangs low in the sky lighting the world in a different way.

our wardrobes will change, and we will apply more layers, but we adapt, and the thought of walking through the woods with betty and otto kicking through the disregarded leaves fills me with warm anticipation, i am loving being a grandparent and hearing betty call me ‘papa j’ makes my heart melt, i could not have designed this relationship to be more beautiful.

so here we are, another week and another blog, how has your week been dear blog reader, good i hope?

mine has been great fun, we are now recruiting, which feels similar to the change of season, and we have some fab candidates, so we will be interviewing next week, which is exciting.

we are also moving our offices, due to our current landlord selling our current home, but we have signed a deal on our new abode, and will be moving in soon, again, an extremely exciting time.

i also took a trip to london with tania, to recharge our batteries, and we stayed at one of our fave places, the good hotel, which is an amazing floating hotel, with a beautiful ethos.

now there is a reason for telling you all this information, so let me tell you more.

as well as hitting the moco, we also headed to a new collection of work by damien hirst, called ‘civilisations’ which consists of 32 new pieces of work, with another four pieces that he was selling as prints.

so we headed to the gallery to experience his work first hand, and as we did the sun shone through the tall gallery windows.

as i looked at the new collection, tania came up to me and whispered.

“do you know how much these are?”

i replied.

“no, how much?”

“small ones 1 million dollars, big ones 2 million dollars!” she educated me.

“and there’s a guy over there just about to buy one for a million, he’s just deciding which one!”

the thirtyish guy in shorts and sneakers, pondered, and chose, one million big ones, sold.

i’d never witnessed somebody make a million dollar purchase before my very eyes, and it was intoxicating, but also mad.

we run a mental health charity that changes and saves lives, and if money was no object i know we could help solve the uk’s mental health crisis.

and this guy drops a cool million on a picture.

now i don’t begrudge him spending his money on whatever he wants, i am just blown away at what value art has.

so this got me thinking.

what if we could get living artists, and dead artists who have foundations, to donate pieces of work to bigmoose, and then we get a big auction house to auction them all off?

create an art auction for good.

it could be worth millions, and fund us for years.

so.

what do i need?

contacts.

links to artists.

links to gallery owners.

links to cool people who know people.

so can you help?

imagine if we pull this off, what a story.

i’m starting work on it immediately, and if you can help, please email me, it sounds a mad plan, but only because we haven’t achieved it yet.

yet.

and when we have achieved it, and we talk about it, that will be a fun conversation to reminisce over, a bit like when we had the dream to raise a million in a year.

turning dreams into reality.

that needs to go on the wall.

so until next time, if you can help that’d be great, and if we can help you, that’d be greater.

blue skies,

jeff

p.s. as we were about to leave the gallery, shorts guy came back in and told the salesman “i just wanna say goodbye to it” and proceeded to his new purchase, and said “goodbye, until i see you again.”

i like shorts guy.