Actually I know a lot of people who have made enough from their artwork to sustain them, particularly in New York. That's not been my case and at the moment Azure and I are both unemployed and that's frightening. Even so I don't find the artworld or any other groupings of cultural institutions a sham. In NY where I also live there are about a hundred-thousand people who declare themselves artists on their income tax - the place is over- saturated obviously, and if you think of the number of collectors and galleries - which, old-fashioned, maybe show 15 artists a year- it's incredibly difficult to get heard. Which is why I love the net but as it's been pointed out, the net really doesn't pay - sometimes it does, but rarely. In any case we're scared and depressed and people we know are losing jobs right and left...
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