If you don’t sell work, if your work doesn’t show in galleries, if you are against the idea of storing work and most of your work is painted over then the logical outcome is to exist as a virtual painter. This is not a bitter rant, but a unique solution that was never available to the vast “school of” or “workshop of” in art history.
Your website is a 21st century repository against the notion of the “undiscovered” artist taking his work to landfill. It is the gallery you could never get into. All that is required is a mental shift. Does the physical object need to exist? Much as Spotify has replaced the CD, which has replaced the vinyl record, will the digital tablet replace the canvas? Hockney started this 10 years ago.
To secure immortality in this brave new world, all you need is a legacy payment system to cover your annual website subscription and your work can orbit the virtual galaxy for future generations to discover. Long after you are gone.
It’s an idea that has genuine appeal to me, mostly for the amusement value.