After having done my taxes I made virtually no money from the making of art last year. But probably spent  well over $3000 on making it. I did have to buy a new mac when my old one had a complete melt down.
I also still owe 10,000 or more to my old alma mater SAIC. I have come to the conclusion that there is something screwed up in my own perspective on making money (somehow not yet worthy) or that the system for treating art to be far beneath the value of infomericals, bad made-for-tv movies and shitty bubblegum pop albums is horribly screwed also. Then I saw this article in NY Times where a lawsuit is being brought from a collector who feels he is blacklisted for not being able to sell art as a commodity. I am so far from worry about such issues, but it does help to remind me that art is really a rich persons game. And I think to myself "why are these "collectors" so concerned about buying only a hand full of big name artists instead of helping to invest in future talent and keeping the art market open to many more?" I guess because we are American greedy bastards after all. I also love this picture. Of course this bastard only buys giant sculptures of really ugly shoes....

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/17/arts/design/17blacklisting.html

Lawsuit Describes Art ‘Blacklist’ to Keep Some Collectors Away

By RANDY KENNEDY

Published: April 17, 2010

A federal suit filed in Manhattan describes a rarefied contemporary art market in which artists refuse to sell work to collectors they fear will profiteer. click on link above to read rest of article.