In the line, waiting for someone to reschedule my flight, i met this guy.
‘What are you doing as a job?‘ i asked,
‘Im a digital, video artist’ he answered.
I was so struck i couldn’t say a word. I was struck by the fact that someone had the guts, and all that is needed, to call himself an artist. Meaning, artist as a job, a full time job.
I admire that.
Later he told me he lives in NY. Maybe it is common there to have people using ‘artist’ as a title. I’ll be in NY in may.