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Saturday, August 13, 2011

Me inc.

So being an emerging artist with a freshly printed BFA is a very interesting experience and one of the interesting things about being an artist is that you are really a small business. - yes - ME personally. As in, I could get incorporated or if I so desired get a board of directors and become a non-profit. (Which would be nice because right now I am not really quite at not for profit status. I am running at a loss.) Like many people I do not have an HR department, an IT department or any other particular compartments. For the first five years of most artist careers, most do not make significant amounts of money. And 99 percent drop out of the career of ambiguity within the first year. In some ways our drop out rate puts any chemistry class to shame. Which makes me wonder if being a doctor would have been that bad.

While my friends will be starting developing work habits, and establishing life work balance. I will be trying to sell my business or in this sense ...myself. I got a degree to sell ...myself. And I really like what I do, but it is not what you would expect.

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