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You may have already read this article on the nytimes from APhotoEditor, but I think it’s worth repeating. It rings home with the same tone of this old post One day we’ll all just be amateur photographers?
Students who entered art school a few years ago will probably have to emerge with drastically altered expectations. They will have to consider themselves lucky to get career breaks now taken for granted: the out-of-the-gate solo show, the early sales, the possibility of being able to live on the their art.
It’s day-job time again in America, and that’s O.K. Artists have always had them — van Gogh the preacher, Pollock the busboy, Henry Darger the janitor — and will again. The trick is to try to make them an energy source, not a chore.
The quote below is what we all need to be thinking of. Now is the perfect time to play to and fail. Will you make money from it? Maybe not, but that’s what the day job is for right?
At the same time, if the example of past crises holds true, artists can also take over the factory, make the art industry their own. Collectively and individually they can customize the machinery, alter the modes of distribution, adjust the rate of production to allow for organic growth, for shifts in purpose and direction. They can daydream and concentrate. They can make nothing for a while, or make something and make it wrong, and fail in peace, and start again.
The first link jumps to the second page of that article, FYI.
It is an exciting time but also, I’m afraid, a time for day jobs.
Good catch on the link Ryan. Guess I linked to the second page when I was reading it without noticing.
Exciting/bleepin scary sums it up pretty well for me too.