Hey hey, I’m not suffering for you anymore…and no artist should.

The latest post of A Year After Surviving is here to show how romanticizing artistry and demonizing business ownership is fucking dumb.

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“Ms. Mojo believes that the best way to discourage the starving/suffering artists philosophy is to encourage artists to seek avenues of self-employment…I say that the best way to discourage artists to starve and suffer is to encourage artists to move away from self-employment through their art, and instead encourage artists to become creative business owners.

This is not going to be a popular entry amongst my fellow artists, but I say this with years of knowledge that come from speaking with young- physically and mentally- artists about their aims and goals, and from years of being that starving and suffering artist. There is the pervasive idea that business and art are somehow inextricably separate, which has infiltrated the western philosophy because we live in a society that has tangible evidence to support the idea that all artists suffer, and tangible evidence that- by the metrics of society- business owners are successful and mentally rigid. I mean, you can’t be a good artist if you’re supposed to be suffering, but you’ve found a way not to, right? And, you can’t be a business owner if you are creative and counter-culture, right?

But, those are bs assumptions that I just cannot stand by ever again….”