whyartlovemagic

why art love and magic

Artists provide a valuable service to society. We dream and we seek to inspire and at our very best, we plant seeds for a better future. We remind people of beauty. When someone's engaged in a piece of art, they're present and they let that which drags them down slip away for a moment.

So many artists I know have struggled to turn their talents into careers. Art careers generally fall into three categories- the successful entrepreneur, the underpaid work for hire, or the starving artist. Not everyone was born to be an entrepreneur. In many ways the skills which make for a genius artist (unbounded creativity) are in conflict with the skills it takes to launch an entrepreneurial career (organization, timeliness).

A driving force behind what I'm doing is the belief that there is a staggering amount of talent out there that goes underdeveloped. I know scores of talented artists who struggle with living two lives- a day job to allow them to make it, and their true life as an artist that they live in stunted gaps. I happen to believe that living this way breeds manic suicidal depression.

With the close of 2006, I thanked the folks at WildWorks and set out to do my own thing. On January 1st, Art Love Magic (or artlovemagic- I love both) officially began operations as my full time passion. We're publishing, we're doing live art events, and we're going to help artists develop their careers.

I fundamentality believe that the universe works as a mirror and it reflects back at you what you bring to it. All these things I've wanted my whole life- a career in comics, affluence, collaborating with artists who've inspired me- I'm trying to create them for others. And myself. We'll do it together.

-Mike