Over the years, I’ve tried numerous ways and means to support myself and to create the time and space to pursue my artistic endeavors.
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Creativity thrives on an openness and innocence (or perhaps wilful ignorance), a trust in the unknown and a delightful anticipation of the unexpected. It calls for a certain level of restriction, pressure or limitation: a time constraint, a budget limit, an equipment or materials limit, inexperience, weather conditions, client preferences, Mercury or Mars in retrograde, etc.
We spend so much time trying to find our way alone that we sometimes forget we’re part of something much bigger. Sometimes, the person who reminds us of what we already know is simply the one we least expected to be listening.
Your art was never meant to be held hostage by the need to make a living.
We spend so much of today worrying about tomorrow that we forget this is the life we’ve been waiting to live.