Today being the first of September feels a lot like a fresh start.
After finishing university I haven’t done very much. I want very badly to be an artist and earn a living that way, but I can’t. Especially with where I am and I feel that I don’t really have any contacts with the art world unlike some of the people from my course.
At the moment I am desperately seeking work, any kind of work. A dream job would involve some faint scent of art about it but any work would do. My problem is that I’ve spent the past 4 years making and focusing my energy on that, so I have little to no experience in a working environment, therefore no one will employ me. This job hunt has really influenced my artwork, in other works, the lack of artwork. I haven’t made anything since my degree show. I hate myself for this, I’m a very self-driven person and somehow I’ve lost that.
So today I’m turning over a new leaf, I’m making something, anything. I need to get back to making. Last year at this time I’d have been making but I’d have also have been at uni.
