And that's not okay. This is not the way. And when I had my falling out with my mentor that I talked about in my recent video about quitting art multiple times, it was honestly a moment for me, a reckoning for me, to realize that the way I was working was not working. It was not going to ever set me free and allow me to make my work. When that happened. The other thing was I lost my community, I lost my support network that was enabling me making a lot of the choices I was making in the community. And I it was devastating. I needed though, to see that the vision of success that my school had for me was not going to be the way forward. I had to get out of the art school rat race in order to find the work that I'm making now in order to find myself again. I really had to go through it. Remember that lines on a CV only mean something to a very specific kind of person to a very specific way of working and making in the arts. And you don't need that in order to be a valid artist. You don't need to do stuff for free. You don't need to just collect all of those lines, because what's it going to get you? Maybe $1,000 off your graduate degree, or maybe that'll get you on a hiring panel for a full-time tenure track position. These are becoming more and more scarce, especially as these schools are closing. And that should not be the path that everyone is looking towards, because it is truly unsustainable. Never once when I was in art school was I taught to consider the audience of my work as a real person. That thing that they often teach in business and marketing, which is called the ideal customer profile? We did none of that. I was instead taught to write in the language of museum texts and art forum, aka international art English, which is mostly gobbledygook. It uses way too many words that are overcomplicated when simple ones would do. And I don't think there's a real way that artists are taught to connect to potential collectors, customers, or see themselves as a business. But y'all, when you're selling work, you're selling $1,000 paintings, you are essentially running a luxury business. And you are selling luxury products. But no one in the art world wants to acknowledge this at all. They just want to pretend that it's like fairyland. And like, I am not Mickey Mouse. Like, I can't live like that. It wasn't until 2020, when I watched as the MoMA laid off most of their staff, especially their education staff, that I realized, wait a minute, I don't like this organization.
それでいいわけがない。こんなやり方は。そして、私が師匠と喧嘩したとき、先日のビデオで何度もアートを辞めたことについて話しましたが、それは私にとって正直なところ、清算の瞬間でした。今までのやり方では、私を自由にすることも、作品を作ることもできなかった。それが起きたとき。もうひとつは、私がコミュニティで行っていた多くの選択を可能にしてくれていたサポートネットワークを失ったことだ。それはショックだった。でも、学校が私に与えてくれた成功のビジョンが、この先進むべき道ではないことを理解する必要があった。もう一度自分