I just finished this collage, the first I ever made expressly for selling. Yes, I'm taking a deep breath and pitching myself headlong into space … that is, I've decided to become a professional artist. As of this spring I stopped calling myself a teacher (currently unemployed) who does art and began to consider myself an artist who has also taught.
Even though it's by no means my first career about-face, even though the only real risk is to my ego, this is an enormously frightening move for me. I don't know what to expect, I don't know how to proceed, and I certainly don't know if I've got what it takes. For better or worse, however, I'm going forward.
