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I did not know how I would make a living when I began making art. I felt like I was in a fog, groping around, and trying things. Doing this caused the fog to dissipate until it was clear how I would make a living.

Do not wait around to be chosen.

Ultimately what you are looking for is a business model — a configuration of the knobs — that is profitable enough to support one employee, you.

"Business" is simply a lens through which one can look at something. It is not the only lens. You can look at art through an aesthetic lens (how does it look?), a technical lens (how is it made?), an emotional lens (how does it make you feel?), an interpretive lens (what does it mean?), and a political lens (what does it say about our world?).

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But most of the time, there is no one to help you. You must think about your art practice as a business.

All in all, desire, romance, eros, pleasure is about following the path of ineffability and unknowingness. Phenomenologically it’s about keeping the Other as not an extension of you—your wants, your desires, your understandings—but their own distinct, distanced essence. They are not you. They are not for you. They are other. And it is because of... See more

The ability to see beyond —beyond good and evil sure, but also beyond comfort, success, achievement, domesticity, beyond even our selves—and look toward nuance (towards the erotic!) which means engulfment, annihilation, death.

The tusk pierces Adonis.

Cupid’s dart takes aim at St. Sebastian.

The nail is driven into Christ’s flesh spilling out his... See more

Knowing that you can be deeply moved—intellectually and physically—but you can never fully grasp another in their entirety.

Twentieth-century philosopher, Emmanuel Levinas, described the caress as a “game with something slipping away.”