Being an artist and earning enough to live and buy food and actually be an artist sometimes feels like juggling too many slippy balls or keeping too many plates spinning. I like the plate analogy, the image of moving around a room infinitely spinning the plates that are losing momentum. I once did a performance where I blutacked 60 arrows pointing upwards in a gallery and each minute, I would run around to every arrow and move it six degrees around clockwise so it was always pointing to the correct time. I did this for an hour. It was knackering but interesting to really get into time. Sometimes it’s also good to put all the arrows on a table or the plates in a pile or the juggling balls on the floor and sit down and ask for some more money.
<aside> ⌛ When working on a commission, ask for extra time and budget to assess the environmental and social concerns of your artwork and, if the project involves legal agreements, include green considerations and clauses using GCC's Commissioning Guidelines.
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