A loose voice note on trying to be creative (and maintain a standard of living) in a landscape that frequently makes both feel impossible, as told by Mason Currey’s upcoming release, Making Art and Making a Living: Adventures in Funding a Creative Life, which comes out at the end of March. The author of Daily Rituals: How Artists Work does a fantastic job analyzing the tradeoffs of patronage, odd jobs, adjacent jobs, and (yes) the generational wealth that made many of our most prized works and cultural moments of creativity possible.
I also wrote in more depth about why I was excited for the book. Forgive my voice, as I was (am) slightly under the weather.
