I think that creating art is something that you can do, even if you have serious mental illness...or maybe I should say that creating art is something that you can do in spite of serious mental illness.
You just can't function in some professions if you don't have your crap together. An art career just requires you to create. Especially when you keep in mind that many of the famous artists from the past lived in impoverished obscurity.
I am nicknamed "Lucy" at work because people confess all their issues and problems to me. My coworkers have filled a jar of nickles for me. It's a comedy in our building.
I sign in my friend on faa, she is a kind of mad, spend more time in mental hospitals then someone in freedom, but when she is out she paint sometimes, this is her work Moon an a vulcano, i dont know how much it is interesting to not mad people
I just finished watching the Hemingway Ken Burns/Novak documentary on PBS. Between the family history of depression, the bumps to the head and the heavy drinking, it's a miracle anything of substance was produced.
I would think that even the best of sellers amongst us have created a lot more art than they sell, or could even reasonably expect to sell. So does the - repeating the same thing over and over and expecting different results apply to artists as well? Just wondering what that thing is that drives us to create?
It would be pretty easy for me to do the Pollock thing and drink myself to death, that's why I don't drink at all. While I've had my episodes (relatively mild) so far I've never felt the urge to cut off my ear or any other body part.
Did anyone bring up Jackson Pollack? I think he was mad. He didn't sound like a nice man and drank heavily enough to end his life via car accident.
For some reason, that particular death bores me...too many mean drunks out there for it to be cool. Maybe he made drunk driving and dying cool in his time.