Getting Wrecked
"Being in a suit made me feel constricted, like being part of a club that I didn't choose to join. I was told that I could never make money as an artist so I tried to do things that were "art adjacent" like teaching (which I thought would be creative) and marketing and advertising (which were the "creative" sides of business I believed). It turned out that teaching isn't creative and marketing isn't making. I wore a suit and pretended that I didn't care but inside I knew that there was an artist just waiting to bust out! I wanted to step away, but waited until I had my first child to allow myself to do so. I was not going to jeopardize my child for a bank marketing job in Waltham I said! And honestly it was the most creative thing that I allowed myself to do since art school. Being at home with the kids allowed me to find my way back to my creative kernel but it took a long and windy road through teaching and other stuff to get there. It's...
