One thing I’ve experienced even to this day, is a misunderstanding of how much time it takes to create art, the need to be absolutely alone while creating and because of it, a strange unspoken pressure I feel from others that I’m somehow being selfish or neglectful.

For example, I’ve been isolated for three weeks now and painting during the whole time. From 9:00am to 1am every day all day I have been knee deep in paint and canvases, mess and clean ups, with very little time for phone calls in between let alone computer work.

And only just in the last coupes of days have I felt a real return to a creative flow that is free and necessary to push the work and myself into new areas. This stuff takes time, and time is my greatest need. Time alone.

I’m not complaining AT ALL. I’m only stating an observation that if a person isn’t an artist they probably don’t get it, and if you are a partner with such a person there is an unspoken pressure that what you are doing should be done in between household tasks or responsibilities

Art is not presented as a valid career choice. As a child it was always told that it’s something you do ‘for fun’ or on the side’ of a real job. Forms never have the arts listed as an option for careers. Yet the arts contribute greatly to the economy and to society’s well being.

Anyway all is well here with me. I’m painting again today but horrified by what I’m seeing around the world. If you are a praying sort, remember the families who are being held in cages at the US border with no protections and keep them in your prayers until they are released.