My personal life and my artistic life do not interfere with each other.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Art is my life and my life is art.
I've always surrounded myself with other artists. My close friends, people I've been in relationships with - I went to an arts high school - even my elementary school was arts based.
I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don't disparage those things that I did. They're just not as much reflective of who I am.
My writing and my paintings do not have a direct connection in my mind. But I am sure they influence each other in the measure that everything we do is linked to whatever we are, which includes whatever we have done or are doing.
My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It's the only thing I find interesting.
Painting is not what my life is about, but it is very important to me, and I am very lucky to be able to give some time to it.
Yes, the more I go through life I realize that there's really no separation between practice and art at all. The two things more and more become one rather than two different aspects of my life.
I am always rethinking how art is perceived and received, questioning our relationship to art. That's always been a constant.
But I am a lover of all kinds of art. And I just can't stick to one thing. I guess I could if I made myself, but I'd always be looking the other way, for other things.
But painting can be too lonely... I like being with people too much to have ever made that my life's work.