How to be an Emerging Artist:
Be mostly poor.
Create what is in your head... it sucks.
Even you think so.
Create what is in your heart, pull it out of your very soul.
It is incredible.
Just joking... It sucks.
You love it.
Take other jobs so you don't starve to death.
Think up an even better theme!
Contemplate it and envision it continually.
Figure out how to make it work!
EPIC FAIL. You were transporting it to the kiln and you broke it.
Look for a place to put all your work.
Get another job to pay for studio space.
See an incredible sight while driving to work at 4:45 am.
INSPIRATION!!!
Get three hours of sleep every night for two weeks while working 55 hours a week at your day job.
Spend every extra second working on your masterpiece!
Go to the Art Show, spend 8 hours setting up.
Take an Advil or 12.
Price your masterpiece at $1200.
Someone offers your $300.
Fail...all weekend. That is 960 minutes of failure.
Sob your eyes out in your car.
Lose all interest in ever doing anything related to art for the rest of your life.
Take another job, work 125 hour weeks for 10 weeks
Wake up with the most incredible idea.
This is going to be the bestest most beautifulist piece you have ever made... in your entire life!
Really, things have to go better eventually... Right?
The DOW Jones drops 500 points in a single day.
Billionaires visiting Beavercreek wrapped in Dolce and Gabbana lugging Louis Vuitton love your smaller items, they would be just perfect for their daughter... but they have to think about the $20 price tag.
Abandon your booth, quiz more experienced Artists about how they succeeded.
Find out most are now failing as well.
Return to booth.
Two different couples come by, they love your $800 pieces, they promise to come back.
You wait for an hour after the show ends.
They are having dinner.
You are broke.
You pack up. Six hours over mountain passes. You get home by 3 am.
Don't worry.
You are EMERGING!!!
