Joseph Beuys said “art alone makes life possible”.
Everyone is an artist, Beuys said it and Instagram and YouTube prove it. This is a good truth about us.
1600 days into this project and my intention is to become more deliberate and specific with what I’m doing here. Goals and things I want to do with this body of work. Thinking about endings and new beginnings. Things here have ended and begun again, and things there have ended and begun again.
1600 days and thinking about privilege. Privilege of making your living from your art and or the privilege of not having to. Getting to sell your art versus having to sell your art. Arguments for both – Bukowski’s angry artist office worker, Glass doing plumbing and driving cab while composing are not romantic anymore until they make it, and yet by far the majority of human artistic effort happens with this narrative.
“These words I write keep me from total madness,” Bukowski said. “Drink from the well of yourself and begin again.”
