# Retreat + Art Fair = $ucce$$

May 17, 2021 · creative-practice, personal-update, exhibitions

Canonical: https://www.romellogoodman.com/writing/retreat-art-fair-ucce
Originally published: https://mellogood.substack.com/p/retreat-art-fair-ucce

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### Art Fai

![](https://imagedelivery.net/BtaYDmQqPcGi8C3w4F2NuA/7a3b7d51-b4eb-4b87-a089-0e366a2f1000/public)

Well…it depends on what you mean by success. The fair was pretty dead. Not a lot of people were there and I only sold one print. But, the successful part was the act of selling. I hadn’t tabled at an event in years and it confirmed that this is a something that I would like to continue doing as I make art. Talking to people about how the prints were made and seeing which ones they gravitated towards was really nice 😊

### Retreat

Lots of code was written:

![](https://imagedelivery.net/BtaYDmQqPcGi8C3w4F2NuA/3135064d-c87f-45c2-7d40-0a801d7da900/public)

![](https://imagedelivery.net/BtaYDmQqPcGi8C3w4F2NuA/c7340e5d-8a03-473b-5f79-ca0f6795e800/public)

From a high level heres what I did:

Refreshed the [home page](https://goodgraphics.xyz/) to emphasize the experiments and social channels.

Standardized the configuration information for each graphic

Standardized the experiment UI (what you see on apps like Aubs and Palette)

[Palette](https://goodgraphics.xyz/palette), the first iteration of a new tool for helping choose color palettes.

[Twitter Bot](https://twitter.com/goodgraphicsxyz), the first iteration at creating a twitter bot that spits out graphics every few hours.

Easel, an internal tool I have for creating Graphics. Really invested alot of time in building it out so that I can start to build more ambitious Graphics

I didn’t finish everything I wanted to, but spent a lot of time conceptually thinking about Good Graphics. From a non-code standpoint though, I switched over from Patreon to Substack, stood up some other social channels and started on a few research posts. The new research posts should be on the site in the coming days.

### In Conclusion

Today Good Graphics is just a hobby/experiment but I’m starting to piece together how this could one day be a studio/company/startup. It feels weird sitting in this ambiguity but I’m really enjoying slowly building out a thesis for my work.

As always,

-Mello