Some Background on This Challenge
The place: an overgrown 1930's dunetop cottage about two blocks back from Lake Michigan. It's been remodeled and remuddled into apartments, then gradually back into a single-family home with an art gallery and a studio. The studio is a former apartment on the lowest level and walks out into a sculpture garden with a meditative labyrinth and a large, slowly decaying shed.
The people: me, deaf since childhood, somewhat arthritic, easily distracted by a never-ending cycle of chores, and Steve, my husband of 3 1/2 years, an artist and website developer from England. I have one son, Nick, who is a musician and law student; he lives about a half an hour away.
The challenge: now that I have retired from my "day" job as a landscape designer, I have the opportunity to work at my art full time. The decision was both liberating and scary. I've sold quite a bit of my work in the past three years, but now I want to push the envelope and do the best work I can. Will I be able to resist the old habit of treating my art as a hobby, and put it first the way I've put jobs and housework first all these years?
The people: me, deaf since childhood, somewhat arthritic, easily distracted by a never-ending cycle of chores, and Steve, my husband of 3 1/2 years, an artist and website developer from England. I have one son, Nick, who is a musician and law student; he lives about a half an hour away.
The challenge: now that I have retired from my "day" job as a landscape designer, I have the opportunity to work at my art full time. The decision was both liberating and scary. I've sold quite a bit of my work in the past three years, but now I want to push the envelope and do the best work I can. Will I be able to resist the old habit of treating my art as a hobby, and put it first the way I've put jobs and housework first all these years?
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