am i still an artist?
The last few months have felt like trying to push a square peg into a round hole. The rejections have been free flowing and plentiful, across both art opportunities and any feeble attempts to get out of retail. I did catch myself out a little though in realising that churning out loads of vague and half formed thoughts here on this blog was kind of like a performance to myself, to prove that there is still artist blood pumping in my veins. I needed to at least appear to be continuing to pursue creativity and my art practice - even if it was only with words and no images ever really truly came. In honest truth, any images of my own that I've shared here over the last six months had generally been made long before those six months and I used conceptualising them to try and make myself feel better about the fact that I have absolutely no desire whatsoever at present to make new ones. The big issue is, now that 'To Jack' and all my very many deeply personal project are done, s...
