> Sol Nte wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I know many of you work full-time at a job other than as an artist and yet
> > still find the time to work to a significant degree as artists. Often for
> > those of us interested in the avant-garde making a living from our artistic
> > interests is not an option. Lately I seem to have got bogged down to a stage
> > where I don't seem to have time to do as much as I would like. I'm wondering
> > if anyone has any tips/advice about time management where art is concerned.
> >
Dear Sol,
I've been thinking about how doing art is different from doing other things, how it
should be different, etc. Finding the notion of "professional" applied to
artmaking inappropriate, etc. I think that even if one has a day job one must give
priority to the freedom of thought and action that doing art seems to impose. That
is, sometimes one's day job suffers, must suffer. Regard the artmaking as your
actual work and the day job as secondary. Take sick days. Think about artmaking at
work. Let it rule your life, allow the gradual practice of freedom to infect your
daily practices. Eventually you'll find yourself without a day job, of course, and
needing to find a way to make a living that suits your artmaking. Now that's a
goddamn artform.
This isn't meant flippantly. I have indeed done this, several times over.
AK
