A personal narrative reflecting on life, death, and the AIDS crisis, exploring fear, societal indifference, the struggle for representation, and the urgency of public acknowledgment of grief and mortality.
Making a living from your work comes so much later in the process of being an artist. The first layer of needs for an artist is to have something that naturally comes out of you. Second is having subject matters that inspires you. Third is having the willingness to keep doing it and to get better at it. Fourth is maybe that you have enough positive... See more
It's an intimidating prospect to enter a field where a few big winners outperform everyone else. Some people do this deliberately, but you don't need to. If you have sufficient natural ability and you follow your curiosity sufficiently far, you'll end up in one. Your curiosity won't let you be interested in boring questions, and interesting... See more