Being an Artist in the Real World
Experiences and unsolicited advice from an artist navigating life, work, and motherhood.
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There is nothing quite like an eclipse leading directly into your birthday to spark a minor existential crisis.Obviously, I don’t need any persuading to use the movement of planets as an excuse to look at my own. Eclipses, astrologically speaking, are supposed to illuminate what has been obscured, bring old cycles to a close and make certain things harder to unsee. This eclipse hasn’t sent me searching for answers so much as made a few things I’d already been circling, maybe for a decade, harder
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