Today (2/2/07) we talked about whether we, as artists, are willing to sacrifice comfort for our art. I came to understand that a lot of us are merely feeding our passions as artists and feel the need to explain our ways as artists, but that leaves us in an economic situation that doesn't allow us to work as artist. I want to note that being an artist is not in what you create but of how you decide to think. Being an "artist", as much as many of you think, does not require you to stock shelves at Wal-Mart, or be a woodsman, unless that is what you like. As so far, all of us have decided the freedom of going to art school, and i want to know why that freedom gets lost at the end? How many of you are so obligated and situated to one life-style, that you cannot, in a lifestyle, multi-task? I don't think it has to do with our experience in the monetary, or book-keeping, field but whether or not we are going to be successful or be a flat out under achiever. My advise to artists out there, educated or not, is to aim high, because that is what you are doing when you becoming an artist. In other words, BITE THE BULLET...
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Arthur
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I agree with this, Arthur, but I can say from personal experience is that it is not easy to juggle one's artstic practice with one's responsibilities to food, clothe and shelter oneself. Yes, bite the bullet, absolutely. Man, it does not take long to get bogged down by workaday life! That is why I have always found it important to expand my notion of what constitutes making art to include things like home decor, blogging, making zines, whatever – I refuse to lose myself to the 9 to 5. At the very least we can continue to think as an artist, even during those times when we aren't active in a more traditional way, like in a studio.
Grad school was a refuge to me in a way, that I wanted to dedicate more time to my practice. Little did I know that all I was doing was heading from the frying pan into the fire! Ah well, at least I will have credentials once I'm out of here... ;)
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