Take back your life. The more who do so, the more corporations will have to pay to make us keep consuming their shit. Capitalist Lysistrata.
Jul 19, 2024
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we were not meant to perform labor for hours a day until we die. you’ve been given the opportunity to get out of this cycle so take advantage of it! it doesn’t make you a loser to not have a job, it makes you lucky!! you should absolutely use your time for your passion project and enjoy your life free from the grasp of capitalism!!!!
Jun 26, 2024
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Wake up. Get ready. Commute. Work 8-10 hour days on a wage. Leave. Commute. A few hours of alone time that is usually done doing chores. Sleep. Rinse. Repeat. Retire when you’re 75.
How is this a natural and now a necessity to live? Two days to ourselves in a seven day week if we want to have a home on a land that was originally ours for free? We are milked to work until our life expectancy starts to run dry.
What part is this follows the natural life cycle? How is this NORMAL?? It’s truly distopian.
Jan 27, 2025
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I think if you're in a position to quit your job and rest/work on something you care about, I would do it. That kind of opportunity doesn't come often, and most people will never have it. I'd say especially if you're facing chronic pain or having doctors order you to rest, you'll only regret NOT resting and prioritising your health. Capitalism continues to win when we work our entire lives away.
Jun 26, 2024
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Oct 13, 2024
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So vulnerable, I have to be sincere. European and American art galleries historically are not only promoters of great art, they are creators of markets. That may be where you could shift focus.
Your worth is that you are young, eating rat, living a life of passion, filth, messiness, body horror (per my comment on such) unique and unknown to those with money. They crave you, not for your art. That's worthless to them. The art, as photographs per Sontag in my other rec, is simply a receipt that they owned a piece of your lifestyle for a moment. No one who will buy your art will likely give a fuck about your art. Stop seeking those. Find the Glengarry Glen Ross customers seeking life, escape from drudgery, a need to prove something to themselves. Let your art be that for them.
Enough bs theory, now for implementation. You won't sell your art, but you can sell the frustration, bloodsweattears, dedication, sacrifice that drips from your post. You can do so by simultaneously reminding yourself you are not creating ART but CREATING art. Your work and worth is not on a canvas. It's not the art. It's in you, the artist.
May 11, 2024
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A model friend/client and I stepped out from dinner for a smoke and were having a tipsy discussion about an issue with her company. Some doorman came up to tell us to move because we were blocking the entrance, which we weren't. I was irked, but my friend guessed he likely stereotyped her being in a lover's quarrel. Irked for a different reason, I called out, "Dude, we're discussing business! She's my boss!" In hindsight, I appreciated how he handled what he mistook as a domestic dispute by creating a false diversion to redirect our attention.
Most people get involved in others' drama because they think they know better. Most people don't because they're insecure they're misunderstanding. He was appropriately in between.
Jun 5, 2024