Equipment for Living

I started this project with some very talented partners before the pandemic effectively shut us down, but I loved the project and still want to share it.

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Equipment for Living was a series of interviews in which I asked artists what their artwork did for them as people, and related questions such as:

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• How do you organize your life around the demands art work makes on your time and creativity? 

• How do you protect yourself from the critical voices that might undermine that work?

• What kinds of life situations have made you think about ever giving up artwork, and how did you resolve them to keep creating?

• How would you characterize the satisfaction that follows from work well done?

 

The result was a series of remarkably frank and enlightening conversations about the importance of protecting creative time and inspiration, and of treating creativity as a source of high practical value in spite of all the familiar voices who might ask 'why aren't you doing something more responsible?'

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I'll  add more of the interviews as we finish editing them.