Hunger Pains!

Hunger pains should be common place to a starving artist, right?  No!  There is no comfort when you’re starving; everything begins to hurt not just your stomach.  When you are starving obviously stomach pains are apparent, but the headaches and irritability happen to surface and there can even in some extreme cases be temporary hallucinations.  Who wants to work with all of these ailments serving as a constant reminder of  shortcomings and failures?  The stress of not appealing to the masses and feeling your success is not happening due to things outside of your control will starve your soul to death.  I would rather have an appetite for success as the next emerging artist than to suffer from hunger pains due to a societal label better known as "the starving artist".  The title you wear is what you advertise to the public, the canvas is your book of life where many chapters will unfold to tell stories of tragedy and triumph.  As an artist I never want to be wasteful, not of my talent or art supplies for that matter.  I’m learning it is best not to take anything you have or own to create art for granted.   The idea is to take all of what you have and creatively utilize your resources to build a foundation of constant progression.  If we shall reap what we sow then we must change with the seasons and prepare ourselves to harvest under the worse conditions, otherwise we might not eat.  If the soil is not fertile then we might have to move to a different space emotionally or physically.  If the fertilizer doesn't enrich the soil to produce edible crops then we must change up our sh!t sort to speak and do what comes naturally.  By this I mean your art should have substance and purpose.  The soil is art ready to be plowed for seeds to grow, and the fertilizer is your mind creatively tilling the field making sh!t happen.  Why take on the mindset of a starving artist if we are suppose to eat to live and live to eat?  What you put in and what you put out is a direct reflection of what you are made of as an artist.  Art should be a religion and a way you live your life, and what you create people should want to eat it up like the crackers at communion.  Going into the art world with a starving artist attitude will produce nothing but struggles that will keep you famine.  If you simply utilize what you have by making necessary changes then your career as an artist will be fruitful no matter the season.  Call me farmer John.