Giving Up on Being an Artist | Bleur
For this episode of Bleur’s ‘State of the Art’, they asked us if we’d ever thought about giving up. While our answers differed, there was one connecting thread - artistic expression was a part of our lives, long before we started sharing it with others. for this reason, giving up on being an artist could just mean giving up on pursuing it as a career choice, but never giving up on making work in general.
There’s been many times when I’ve questioned whether to continue pursuing art as a career choice. Having to deal with marketing your work against the Instagram algorithm, having to work full-time to maintain a liveable income, spending all my free time working on something I have no idea will pan out, and feeling lost in the art industry and wondering if you’ll ever thrive.
But, regardless with where life takes me, I’ll always be making work.
Have you ever though about giving up your passion?
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